Open AccessNOTES ON THE BIOLOGY AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE LIFE STAGES OF ONCOPERA PARVA TINDALE (LEPIDOPTERA: HEPIALIDAE)
Author(s) -
Elder R. J.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
australian journal of entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1440-6055
pISSN - 1326-6756
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1978.tb01737.x
Subject(s) - biology , pupa , lepidoptera genitalia , burrow , larva , zoology , instar , ecology
Notes on distribution, burrow type, food, laboratory rearing methods, length of the prepupal (last non‐feeding larval instar) and pupal stages, and times of emergence of the adults from the pupae are given. Descriptions and/or illustrations of all life stages except the egg are presented. The relationship of Oncopera parva to O. argentata Tindale and O. brachyphylla Turner is discussed and it is concluded that O. argentata is a form of O. parva. O. parva and O. brachyphylla are closely related and O. brachyphylla should therefore be retained in the genus Oncopera Walker, even though it lacks the hind tibial hair‐tuft in the male.