Abbreviations
The following abbreviations are used in this key
| ABRS | Australian Biological Resources Study |
| ACT | Australian Capital Territory |
| DAFF | Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry |
| AM | Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia |
| ANIC | Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra, Australia |
| ASCU | NSW Biosecurity Collections Unit, NSW Dept of Primary Industries, Orange, Australia |
| BMNH | The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom |
| BPB | Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii |
| CAS | Californian Academy of Science, San Francisco |
| ICZN | International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature (also International Code of Zoological Nomenclature) |
| JWE | J.W. Evans collection, AM |
| MAMU | Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, Australia |
| MNHN | Muséum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris |
| NMV | Melbourne Museum, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| N.Qld | North Queensland |
| NRS | Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden |
| NSW | New South Wales |
| NTDPIF | Northern Territory Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Darwin, Australia |
| NZAC | New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Auckland, New Zealand |
| PNGOPRA | Oil Palm Research Association Inc, Kimbe, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea |
| QDPI | Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Brisbane, Australia |
| Qld | Queensland |
| QM | Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia |
| RBINS | Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussells, Belgium |
| SA | South Australia |
| SAM | South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia |
| SMTD | Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany (since 2009, the Senckenberg Natural History collections of Dresden) |
| Tas | Tasmania |
| USO | University of Sydney, Orange (now a campus of Charles Sturt University) |
| VAIC | Victorian Agricultural Insect Collection, Victorian Dept of Environment and Primary Industries |
| Vic | Victoria |
| WA | Western Australia |
| WAM | Western Australian Museum, Perth, Australia |
| ZMHB | Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany |
| ZMUM | Zoological Museum, Moscow State University |