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Comostola Meyrick, 1888
Comostola Meyrick, 1888; , TS: Eucrostis perlepidaria Walker
Pyrrhorachis Warren, 1896; , TS: Pyrrhorachis cornuta Warren
= ; [MOB9, 291]
Leucodesmia Warren, 1899; (preocc. Howard, 1895), TS: dispersa Walker
= ; [AUCL]; [MOB9, 291]
Chloeres Turner, 1910; , TS: Chlorochroma citrolimbaria Guenée
= ; [MOB9, 291]
Pyrrhorhachis ; Turner, 1910, (missp.)
Comostola (Geometrinae) ; [AUCL]
Pyrrhorachis (Geometrinae) ; [AUCL]
Chloeres (Geometrinae) ; [AUCL]
Comostola (Hemitheiti) ; [MOB9, 196 (note), 291]
Comostola hauensteini Smetacek, 2004
Kumaon Comostola hauensteini Smetacek, 2004; J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 101: (269-276) , TL: Kumaon, Bhimtal
Comostola laesaria (Walker, 1861)
Sri Lanka, India, Indochina, S.China, Taiwan, Sundaland, N.Australia, Bismarcs. See [About maps] Iodis[sic] laesaria Walker, 1861; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 20: 54
Eucrostis[sic] perlepidaria Walker, 1866; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 35: 1610
= ; [AUCL]; [MOB9, 292]
Comostola laesaria, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]
 Comostola laesaria ; [AUCL]; [MOB9: 292, f. 406, pl. 11]

Larva on Memecylon, Buchanania, Melaleuca, Dimocarpus, Mangifera, Terminalia [MOB9, 292]

Comostola orestias Prout, 1934
Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia. See [About maps] Comostola orestias Prout, 1934; in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 12 : 130
Comostola orestias ; Holloway, 1976, Moths of Borneo with special reference to Mt. Kinabalu: 63; [MOB9: 292, f. 317, 404, pl. 11]
C. o. anicana Prout, 1934
Sumatra, New Guinea Comostola orestias anicana Prout, 1934; in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 12 : 130
Comostola orestias anicana ; [MOB9, 292]
Comostola meritaria (Walker, 1861)
Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi. See [About maps] Geometra meritaria Walker, 1861; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 22: 522
Comostola meritaria ; [MOB9: 293, f. 408, pl. 11]
Comostola nereidaria (Snellen, 1881)
Sulawesi, Borneo, New Guinea, Bismarcks, Solomons. See [About maps] Iodis[sic] nereidaria Snellen, 1881; Tijdschr. Ent. 24 : 76
Comostola flavicincta Warren, 1896; Novit. zool. 3 : 288
= ; [AUCL]; [MOB9, 293]
Comostola nereidaria levata Prout, 1925; Novit. Zool. 32 : 35
= Comostola neseidaria ; [AUCL]
= ; [MOB9, 293]
Comostola nereidaria, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]
 neseidaria ; Warren, 1896, (missp.)
Comostola nereidaria ; [AUCL]; [MOB9: 293, f. 407, pl. 11]
Comostola subtiliaria (Bremer, 1864)
SE.Siberia, Korea, NE.Himalaya, S.China. See [About maps] Euchloris subtiliaria Bremer, 1864; Mém. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersb. (7) 8 (1) : 76, pl. 6, 23
Comostola demeritaria Prout, 1917; Novit. Zool. 24 : 304
= ; [MOB9, 293]
Comostola subtiliaria insulata Inoue, 1963; Tinea 6: 29
= ; [MOB9, 293]
Comostola subtiliaria kawazoei Inoue, 1963; Tinea 6: 29
= ; [MOB9, 293]
Comostola subtiliaria ; [MOB9: 293, f. 405, pl. 11]
Misidentified/misapplied:
Comostola meritaria; Holloway, 1976, Moths of Borneo with special reference to Mt. Kinabalu: 63

Larva on (Japan) Malus, Eurya, Viburnum [MOB9, 293]

C. s. nympha (Butler, 1881)
Japan Racheospila nympha Butler, 1881; Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1881 (3): 411
= Comostola subtiliaria ; [MOB9, 293]
Comostola subtiliaria nympha ; Smetacek, 2004, J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 101: (269-276)
C. s. vapida Prout, 1914
Borneo, Sumatra Comostola demeritaria vapida Prout, 1934; in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 12 : 130
Comostola subtiliaria vapida ; [MOB9, 293]
Comostola cedilla Prout, 1917
New Guinea, Queensland, S.Moluccas, Sulaweis, Philippines, Borneo, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia. See [About maps] Comostola cedilla Prout, 1917; Novit. Zool. 24 : 304
Comostola cedilla, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]
 Comostola cedilla ; [AUCL]; [MOB9: 294, f. 415, pl. 11]
Comostola chlorargyra (Walker, 1861)
India, Andamans, Borneo, Java, Philippines, Sulawesi. See [About maps] Comibaena chlorargyra Walker, 1861; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 22: 577
Leucodesmia confusa Warren, 1905; Novit. zool. 12 : 422
= ; [MOB9, 294]
Comostola hyptiostega Prout, 1935; Novit. zool. 39 : 225
= ; [MOB9, 294]
Comostola chlorargyra, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]
 Comostola chlorargyra ; [AUCL]; [MOB9: 294, f. 414, pl. 11]

Larva on (Andamans) Cerbera [MOB9, 294]

Comostola conchylias Meyrick, 1889
New Guinea. See [About maps] Comostola conchylias ; [MOB9, 294 (note)]
Comostola minutata (Druce, 1888)
Solomons, Bismarcks Iodis[sic] minutata Druce, 1888
Comostola minutata ; [AUCL]; [MOB9, 294 (note)]
Comostola enodata Holloway, 1996
Borneo, Sumatra, Singapore, Sulawesi, New Guinea. See [About maps] Comostola enodata Holloway, 1996; [MOB9: 294, f. 416, pl. 11], TL: Brunei, 3m, Seria
Comostola leucomerata (Walker, 1866)
AU. See [About maps] Chlorochroma leucomerata Walker, 1866
Comostola leucomerata, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]
 Comostola leucomerata ; [AUCL]
Comostola haplophanes Turner, 1910
AU. See [About maps] Comostola haplophanes ; [AUCL]
Comostola iodioides (Lucas, 1891)
AU. See [About maps] Agathia iodioides Lucas, 1891
Comostola eucraspeda Turner, 1910
= ; [AUCL]
Comostola iodioides ; [AUCL]
Comostola pyrrhogona (Walker, 1866)
India, Indochina - S.China, Taiwan, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, N.Australia, Norfolk I.. See [About maps] Eucrostis[sic] pyrrhogona Walker, 1866; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 35: 1610
Iodis[sic] marginata Lucas, 1888; Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) 3: 1267
= ; [AUCL]; [MOB9, 295]
Pyrrhorachis cornuta Warren, 1896; Novit. zool. 3 : 292, TL: D'Entrecasteaux Is., Fergusson I.
= ; [MOB9, 295]
Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona augustata Prout, 1917; Novit. Zool. 24 : 305
= ; [AUCL]; [MOB9, 295]
Pyrrhorachis cornuta callicrossa Prout, 1934; in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 12: (131-132)
= Pyrrhorachis cornuta ; [AUCL]
= ; [MOB9, 295]
Pyrrhorachis cornuta pisochlora Prout, 1934; in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 12: (131-132)
= Pyrrhorachis cornuta ; [AUCL]
= ; [MOB9, 295]
Pyrrhorachis cornuta woodfordi Prout, 1934; in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 12: (131-132)
= Pyrrhorachis cornuta ; [AUCL]
= ; [MOB9, 295]
viridescens (Prout, 1934) (Pyrrhorachis)
= Pyrrhorachis cornuta ; [AUCL]
Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona succornuta Prout, 1937; Novit. zool. 40 (2) : 181
= ; [MOB9, 295]
Pyrrhorachis cornuta exquisitata Fletcher, 1957; in Wolff, Nat. Hist. Rennell Island, 2: 60
= ; [MOB9, 295]
Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona subcrenulata Holloway, 1977; Norfolk I. Philatelic Bull. 3: ?
= ; [AUCL]; [MOB9, 295]
Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]
 Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona ; [AUCL]
Pyrrhorachis cornuta ; [AUCL]
Comostola pyrrhogona ; [MOB9: 295, f. 319, 410, pl. 11]
Comostola turgescens (Prout, 1917)
NE.Himalaya, Sundaland, Sulawesi. See [About maps] Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona turgescens Prout, 1917; Novit. Zool. 24 : 305
= Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona ; [AUCL]
Comostola turgescens ; [MOB9: 295, f. 320, 411-413, pl. 11]
Misidentified/misapplied:
Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona; Holloway, 1976, Moths of Borneo with special reference to Mt. Kinabalu: 63
Comostola rhodoselas (Prout)
Samoa, Fiji Comostola rhodoselas ; [MOB9, 295 (note)]
Comostola dyakaria (Walker, 1861)
Borneo, Philippines, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, NE.Himalaya. See [About maps] Eucrostis dyakaria Walker, 1861; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 22: 567
Comostola albifimbria Warren, 1896; Novit. zool. 3 : 105
= ; [MOB9, 296]
Comostola dyakaria ; [MOB9: 296, f. 318, 409, pl. 11]
Misidentified/misapplied:
Comostola meritaria; Holloway, 1976, Moths of Borneo with special reference to Mt. Kinabalu: f. 433
Comostola simplex (Warren)
Java. See [About maps] Comostola simplex; [MOB9, 296 (note),#]
Comostola citrolimbaria (Guenée, 1857)
AU. See [About maps] Chlorochroma citrolimbaria Guenée, 1857
Chlorochroma inchoata Walker, 1861
= ; [AUCL]
Iodis[sic] illidgei Lucas, 1890
= ; [AUCL]
Chloeres citrolimbaria, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]
 Chloeres citrolimbaria ; [AUCL]
Comostola prasochroa (Turner, 1931)
AU. See [About maps] Chloeres prasochroa Turner, 1931
Chloeres prasochroa ; [AUCL]

Unknown or unplaced taxa
punctata (Prout, 1934) (Pyrrhorachis)
Pyrrhorachis ? ; [AUCL]

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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.
[Don Herbison-Evans]
and Stella A. Crossley; Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia; e-mail: Don Herbison-Evans; e-mail: Don Herbison-Evans
[MOB9]
Holloway, J. D., 1996; The Moths of Borneo, Part 9; Family Geometridae, Subfamilies Oenochrominae, Desmobathrinae and Geometrinae
[Peter Smetacek]
Nature research & adventure in the Himalaya

Some related literature:
Bremer, 1864
Lepidopteren Ost-Sibiriens, insbesondere der Amur-Landes, gesammelt von den Herren G. Radde, R. Maack und P. Wulffius Mém. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersb. (7) 8 (1) : 1-104, 8pls
Butler, 1881
Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Heterocerous Lepidoptera from Japan Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1881 (1): 1-23, (2): 171-200, (3): 401-426, (4): 579-600
Fletcher, 1957
Macroheterocera of Rennell Island in Wolff, Nat. Hist. Rennell Island, 2: 31-66, 90fgs
Prout, 1917
On new and insufficiently known Indo-Australian Geometridae Novit. Zool. 24 : 293-317
Prout, 1934
Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde; Die Gross-Schmetterlinge des Indoaustralischen Faunengebieten; 12. Band: Die indoaustralischen Spanner in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 12 : 1-292, pl. 1-34,36-41,50
Prout, 1925
Geometrid Descriptions and Notes Novit. Zool. 32 : 31-69
Prout, 1935
New Geometridae from East Java Novit. zool. 39 : 221-238
Prout, 1937
New and little-known Bali Geometrinae in the Tring Museum Novit. zool. 40 (2) : 177-189
Smetacek, 2004
Descriptions of new Lepidoptera from the Kumaon Himalaya J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 101 : 269-276
Snellen, 1881
Lepidoptera van Celebes verzameld door Mr. M.C. Piepers, met aanteekeningen en beschrijving der nieuwe soorten Tijdschr. Ent. 24 : 64-68, 69-96, pl. 5-10
Walker, 1861
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 20: 1-276 (1860), 21: 277-498 (1860), 22: 499-755 (1861), 23: 757-1020 (1861), 24: 1021-1280 (1862), 25: 1281-1477 (1862), 26: 1478-1796 ([1863])
Walker, 1866
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 31: 1-322 ([1865]), 32: 323-706 (1865), 33: 707-1120 (1865), 34: 1121-1534 ([1866]), 35: 1535-2040 (1866)
Warren, 1896
New Geometridae in the Tring Museum Novit. zool. 3 : 99-148
Warren, 1896
New species of Drepanulidae, Uraniidae, Epiplemidae and Geometridae from the Papuan region, collected by Mr. Albert S. Meek Novit. zool. 3 : 272-306
Warren, 1905
New species of Thyrididae, Uraniidae, and Geometridae from the Oriental region Novit. zool. 12 : 410-438

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