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Africephala timaea
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Zambia, P. O. Box 32379, Lusaka, Zambia
- 2. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium & Australian National Insect Collection, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia
Description
Africephala timaea (Meyrick, 1914)
COMMON NAME(S): Gracillariine leaf-miner.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Malawi, Namibia, Zambia.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: “ Lusaka ”, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Triberti 2004.
Notes
Published as part of Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), pp. 1-503 in Zootaxa 5354 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Meyrick
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gracillariidae
- Genus
- Africephala
- Species
- timaea
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Africephala timaea (Meyrick, 1914) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Meyrick, E. (1914) n. k. Exotic Microlepidoptera, Marlborough, 1 (6 - 9), 161 - 288. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 10440033]
- De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2022) Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication. Available from: https: // www. afromoths. net / (accessed 20 June 2023)
- Triberti, P. (2004) Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera, Gracillarioidea). In: Mey, Z. (Ed.), Tutt The Lepidoptera of the Brandberg Massif in Namibia. Esperiana Memoir, 1, pp. 75 - 89.