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Sabalia picarina Walker 1865

  • 1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Zambia, P. O. Box 32379, Lusaka, Zambia kmbata 51 @ yahoo. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0003 - 7628 - 8485
  • 2. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Zambia, P. O. Box 32379, Lusaka, Zambia kmbata 51 @ yahoo. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0003 - 7628 - 8485 & Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium & Department of Biological Sciences, University of Zambia, P. O. Box 32379, Lusaka, Zambia kmbata 51 @ yahoo. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0003 - 7628 - 8485 & Australian National Insect Collection, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia jurate. deprins @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7637 - 5755 & Department of Biological Sciences, University of Zambia, P. O. Box 32379, Lusaka, Zambia kmbata 51 @ yahoo. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0003 - 7628 - 8485

Description

Sabalia picarina Walker, 1865b

COMMON NAME(S): Brahmin Moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Type locality is in [Zambia], in the Zambesi Region, without specification of part of the Zambezi River region which is found in the Northwestern, Western, Southern or Lusaka Provinces of the country Zambia.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Naumann 2008.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Walker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Brahmaeidae
Genus
Sabalia
Species
picarina
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sabalia picarina Walker, 1865 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Walker, F. (1865 b) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXXII. Supplement Part 2. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 32, i - iv, 323 - 706. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 38916881]
  • 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)
  • Naumann, S. (2008) Saturniidae, Brahmaeidae. In: K ΒΈ hne, L. (Ed.), Butterflies and moth diversity of the Kakamega forest (Kenya). Self Publishers, s. l., pp. 93 - 116.