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Chrysamma purpuripulcra Karsch 1896

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

Chrysamma purpuripulcra Karsch, 1896c

COMMON NAME(S): Wounded slug.

SYNONYM(S): Altha ansorgei Bethune-Baker, 1911.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.

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 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C479FFEE62F6FB10FBF69FDA

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/10130434 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/A908FFCAC44EFFD96261FFB3FFBF9A67 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/553187B2C479FFEE62F6FB10FBF69FDA (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316378460 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C479FFEE62F6FB10FBF69FDA.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Karsch
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Limacodidae
Genus
Chrysamma
Species
purpuripulcra
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Chrysamma purpuripulcra Karsch, 1896 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Karsch, F. (1896 c) Die athiopischen Limakodiden des Berliner Museums. Entomologische Nachrichten, 22 (17 - 18), 261 - 285. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 11425257]
  • Bethune-Baker, G. T. (1911) Descriptions of new African Heterocera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 7 (42), 530 - 576. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 22098491] https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931108692976
  • African Moths (2019) Not available anymore from https: // africanmoths. com / (accessed 23 November 2019)
  • Catalogue of Life (2017) Available from: http: // www. catalogueoflife. org / col / details / species / id / 4144 eafa 8 b 576 f 76 f 63 c 2639 d 92 a 8852 (accessed 11 November 2017)
  • 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)
  • Pinhey, E. C. G. (1975) Moths of southern Africa. Tafelberg, Cape Town, 273 pp., pls. 1 - 63.