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The Ophiusini (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Erebinae) of Papua Indonesia

by Rob de Vos

 

Ophiusa discriminans (Walker, 1858)

pygospila (Snellen, 1880)
intacta (Hampson, 1913)


Distribution

 

 

 

 

 

STATUS: Widely distributed, but in Papua a local and rare species.

PAPUA LOCALITIES: New Guinea: Abmisibil, Mabilabol. Details in gazetteer.

EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: Indo-Australian tropics, Papua New Guinea, Northeast Australia, east to Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

DATA SOURCES: BMNH, KSP, RMNH, Research Collection Egbert Friedrich.