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Afromelittia aenescens
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
Afromelittia aenescens (Butler, 1896b)
COMMON NAME(S): Clearwing moth.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Kenya, Malawi, Zambia.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1; Wikipedia.org 2023.
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 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Butler
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sesiidae
- Genus
- Afromelittia
- Species
- aenescens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Afromelittia aenescens (Butler, 1896) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Butler, A. G. (1896 b) On a collection of butterflies obtained by Mr. Richard Crawshay in Nyasa-Land, between the Months of January and April 1895. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 55, 108 - 136, pl. vi. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31200087] https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1896. tb 03031. x
- 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)