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1. Live pictures
1.1. Imago
2. Diagnosis
2.1. Original description, and its repetition
3. Further information
3.1. Other combinations
- Bombyx obsoleta Fabricius, 1775 [Original combination]
3.2. Synonyms
- Procodeca quadrata Walker, 1855 [synonym according to funet.fi]
- Laelia eremaea Meyrick, 1891 [synonym according to funet.fi]
- Laelia croperoides Hering, 1927 [synonym according to funet.fi]
3.3. Taxonomy, Nomenclature and Faunistics
The first, and therefore original description of "Bombyx obsoleta" was written by Fabricius (1775: 579). The type locality was given as "nova Hollandia", i.e., Australia. Fabricius (1793: 463) repeated this description under number 175 without providing further details. A few pages earlier, Fabricius (1793: 456) described an obviously quite different "Bombyx obsoleta" from Central America under number 155, which had not yet been mentioned in the 1775 volume. Bombyx obsoleta Fabricius, 1793 (p. 463) is thus a primary homonym of Bombyx obsoleta Fabricius, 1775. However, that other taxon with number 155 already had an older name: Phalaena zea Boddie, 1850 (now Helicoverpa zea Boddie, (1850)).
Laelia obsoleta is restricted to Australia, and — according to the [Atlas of Living Australia] — mainly found along the east coast there..
(Author: Erwin Rennwald)
3.4. Literature
- Original description: Fabricius, J. C. (1775): Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. 1-832. Flensburgi et Lipsiae (Officina Libraria Kortii). [Digitalisat auf biodiversitylibrary.org]
- Fabricius, J. C. (1793): Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus 3 (1): 1-487. Hafniae (C. G. Proft). [Digitalisat auf archive.org]
