1. Live pictures

1.1. Imago

1-2: ♀, Australia, Queensland, Cairns-area, Kuranda, Barron Gorge Nationalpark, n/w Wrights Lookout, 370 m, 1. Oktober 2018 lux (det. & phot.: Egbert Friedrich)

3: ♀, Indonesien, Bali, Ubud, 20. Dezember 2022 (det. & fot.: Kersten Krause)

1.2. Caterpillar

1: Indonesien, Bali, Ubud, 28. März 2024 (det. & fot.: Kersten Krause)

2. Diagnosis

1-2: ♀, data see label (coll. & photos: Egbert Friedrich)

2.1. Original description, figure indicated therein, and concerning text

1-3: Cramer (1777: 148, pl. CXXXIV fig. B, 59) [from copyright-free scans at www.biodiversitylibrary.org]

3. Further information

3.1. Other combinations

• Phalaena cocalus Cramer, [1777] [original combination]

3.2. Synonyms

• Noctua maculata Weber, 1801 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Ophideres plana Walker, [1858] [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Rhytia (Ophideres) crepidolata Lucas, 1894 [synonym according to funet.fi]

3.3. Faunistics

According to [Global Biodiversity Information Facility], the species occurs in Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, China, and Papua New Guinea.

Locus typicus: Indes Orientales.

Borth & Kons (2022: 18-19) tell us: "Eudocima cocalus is widely distributed from the Sunda Islands and the Philippines east to New Guinea, Australia and the Solomon Islands (Zilli et al. 2017)."

(Authors: Michel Kettner & Erwin Rennwald)

3.4. Year of publication of the original description

According to Hemming (1958: 41), the entire volume was published in 1777.

(Author: Jürgen Rodeland)

3.5. Literature

• Borth, R.J. & H.L. Kons (2022): Mitochondrial genetics of Ophiderini, with a new species from the Eudocima phalonia species group (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Calpinae). — Zootaxa, 5148 (1): 1–151. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5148.1.1 [to the open access-paper with download (PDF) at mapress.com]
• Original description: Cramer, P. („1779“) [1777]: De uitlandsche kapellen voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen Asia, Africa en America 2: 1-151, pl. XCVII-CXCII. Amsteldam (S. J. Baalde), Utrecht (Barthelemy Wild).
• Hemming, F. (1958): Opinion 516. — Opinions and Declarations Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 19 (1): 1-44. London.

3.6. Information at other websites (external links)

• [BOLD]
• [Global Biodiversity Information Facility]
• [The Moths Of Borneo]
• [Australian Lepidoptera]