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Loxostege venustalis

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

Loxostege venustalis (Cramer, 1782)

COMMON NAME(S): Orange Porphyry.

SYNONYM(S): Emmelia testula Ḩbner, 1833; Botys divulsalis Zeller, 1852; Scopula jucundalis Walker, 1866a.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province; Mkushi, in Central Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Kopij 2006; 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 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C411FF8662F6FA33FC609C1E

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/553187B2C411FF8662F6FA33FC609C1E (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316380614 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C411FF8662F6FA33FC609C1E.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Cramer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Crambidae
Genus
Loxostege
Species
venustalis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Loxostege venustalis (Cramer, 1782) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Zeller, P. C. (1852) Lepidoptera Microptera, quae J. A. Wahlberg in Caffrorum terra collegit. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Nye Handlingar, Series 3, 40, 1 - 120. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 34531645]
  • Walker, F. (1866 a) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXXIV. Supplement Part 4. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv + 1121 - 1533. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 38918178]
  • African Moths (2019) Not available anymore from https: // africanmoths. com / (accessed 23 November 2019)
  • 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)
  • Kopij, G. (2006) Lepidoptera fauna of Lesotho. Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 49 B (1 - 2), 137 - 180. [http: // www. isez. pan. krakow. pl / journals / azc / pdf / azc _ i / 49 B (1 - 2) / 11. pdf] https: // doi. org / 10.3409 / 000000006783995256
  • Pinhey, E. C. G. (1975) Moths of southern Africa. Tafelberg, Cape Town, 273 pp., pls. 1 - 63.