
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Common, IFB 
A1  - Horak, M 
T1  - Four new species of <I>Telanepsia</I> Turner (Lepidoptera : Oecophoridae) with larvae feeding on koala and possum scats
JF  - Invertebrate Systematics
JO  - Invert. Systematics
Y1  - 1994
VL  - 8
IS  - 4
SP  - 809
EP  - 828
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/IT9940809 
N2  - Four species of Telanepsia Turner (Lepidoptera : Oecophoridae : Oecophorinae), T. stockeri, T: scatophila, T. tidbinbilla and T. coprobora, are described as new. The first three have been reared from larvae feeding and pupating within the scats of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus Goldfuss). Two of these (T. stockeri and T. scatophila) were discovered during a study of koala distribution in the Tantawangalo State Forest, south-eastern New South Wales, and larvae of T. tidbinbilla were collected in koala scats in the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve, Australian Capital Territory. Larvae of the fourth species (T. coprobora) were found in western Victoria entering from the soil and feeding in the scats of possums (probably the brush-tailed possum, Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr), finally pupating in the soil. Adults of this species have also been collected in southern Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Goniobela Turner is established as a new synonym of Telanepsia, and tornospila (Turner) as a new synonym of eucentra (Turner). Six lectotypes are designated and 12 new combinations established. 
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