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Adafroptilum incana
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
Adafroptilum incana (Sonthonnax, 1899b)
COMMON NAME(S): Saturniid.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mpika, in Muchinga Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include Brachystegia spiciformis Benth (Caesalpiniaceae) (African Moths 2019; Pinhey 1972a, b).
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Darge 2012; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.
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 142, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Sonthonnax
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Saturniidae
- Genus
- Adafroptilum
- Species
- incana
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Adafroptilum incana (Sonthonnax, 1899) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Sonthonnax, L. (1899 b) Essai de classification des Lepidopteres producteurs de soie. Actiens. Extrait du Compte rendu des Traveaux du Laboratoire d'Etudes de la Soie 1897 - 1898. Vol. 2. Imprimerie Alexandre Rey, Lyon, 78 pp., pls. 1 - 31. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 13364846]
- African Moths (2019) Not available anymore from https: // africanmoths. com / (accessed 23 November 2019)
- Pinhey, E. C. G. (1972 a) The female of Argema kuhnei Pinhey (Lepid.: Saturn.). Arnoldia, 5 (23), 1 - 2.
- 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)
- Hampson, G. F. (1910 c) Zoological collections from Northern Rhodesia and adjacent territories: Lepidoptera Phalaenae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1910 (2), 388 - 510, pls. 36 - 41. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31563124] https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1910. tb 01899. x