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Agarista Leach, 1814: Agarista Leach, 1814; Zool. Miscell. 1: 37
Agrista ; Angas, 1847, (missp.)
Agarista ; Hampson, 1901, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 3 : 548
Agarista (Agaristinae) ; [POOLE]; [AUCL]

Agarista agricola (Donovan, 1805)

Queensland, New South Wales. See [About maps] Papilio agricola Donovan, 1805; Epitome nat. Hist. Ins. New Holland: pl. 32, f. 1
Agarista picta Leach, 1814; Zool. Miscell. 1: 38, pl. 15
Agarista agricola laetior Hulstaert, 1924
Agarista agricola, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]
Agarista agricola ; Scott, 1864, Aust. Lepid. and their Transformations 1 (2): p. 25, pl. 8 (larva); Hampson, 1901, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 3 : 549, f. 424; [AUCL]

Larva on Vitis heterophylla Hampson, 1901, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 3 : 550

A. a. biformis Butler, 1884

N.Australia Agarista biformis Butler, 1884; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 14 (84) : 404, TL: N.Australia, Port Darwin
Agarista agricola biformis ; Hampson, 1901, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 3 : 549

A. a. timorensis Rothschild, 1896

Timor Agarista timorensis Rothschild, 1896; in Rothschild & Jordan, Novit. Zool. 3 (1): 48, TL: Timer, Oinainisa
Agarista agricola timorensis ; Hampson, 1901, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 3 : 550

A. a. daemonis Butler, 1876

New Guinea Agarista daemonis Butler, 1876; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 18 (105) : 249, TL: New Guinea, Port Moresby

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References:

[AUCL]: Nielsen & Rangsi, 1996; Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia; CSIRO, Australia
[About maps]: Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.
[BHL]: The; Biodiversity Heritage Library; and on; Internet Archive; Note: The linking to the content of Internet Archive is somewhat delicate -- notify me when links break!
[Don Herbison-Evans]: and Stella A. Crossley; Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia; e-mail: Don Herbison-Evans; e-mail: Don Herbison-Evans
[POOLE]: Poole, R. W, 1989; Noctuidae; Lepidopterorum catalogus (New Series, Fasc. 118)

Some related literature:

Butler, 1876: On a Collection of Lepidoptera from Port Moresby, New Guinea Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 18 (105) : 240-249
Butler, 1884: On new Species of Lepidoptera recently added to the Collection of the British Museum Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 14 (84) : 403-407
Donovan, 1805: An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of New Holland, New Zealand, New Guinea, Otaheite and other Islands in the Indian, Sothern and Pacific Oceans ... Epitome nat. Hist. Ins. New Holland: 41pls
Hampson, 1901: Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Arctianae) and Agaristidae in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 3 : i-xix, 1-690, pl. 36-54
Leach, 1814: The Zoological Miscellany; being Descriptions of New, or Interesting Animals Zool. Miscell. 1: 144pp, 60pls
Rothschild in Rothschild & Jordan, 1896: Notes on Heterocera, with descriptions of new genera and species Novit. Zool. 3 (1): 21-62, (2): 185-208, (4): pl. 14-15

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