Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
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Jana eurymas Herrich-Schaffer 1854

  • 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

Jana eurymas Herrich-Schäffer, 1854

COMMON NAME(S): Banded monkey.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: One locality in central Zambia [Latitude, - 12.55529 S; Longitude, 30.29519 E], in Central Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include an unidentified Canthium sp. (Rubiaceae) and Psydrax obovata (Klotzsch ex Eckl. & Zeyh.) Bridson (Rubiaceae).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Ķhne 2008; Pinhey 1975; Scan-bugs Organization 2019a.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Herrich-Schaffer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Eupterotidae
Genus
Jana
Species
eurymas
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Jana eurymas Herrich-Schaffer, 1854 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • 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)
  • Pinhey, E. C. G. (1975) Moths of southern Africa. Tafelberg, Cape Town, 273 pp., pls. 1 - 63.
  • Scan-bugs Organization (2019 a) Zambia. The Davidson College Entomology Collection. Available from: http: // scan-bugs. org / portal / collections / misc / collprofiles. php? collid = 127 & acronym + DCH (accessed 25 January 2023)