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Praedora marshalli Rothschild 1903
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
Praedora marshalli Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
COMMON NAME(S): Marshall’s Hawkmoth.
SYNONYM(S): Praedora australis Clark, 1930.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE)
DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; 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 202, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Rothschild
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Genus
- Praedora
- Species
- marshalli
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Praedora marshalli Rothschild, 1903 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Rothschild, W. & Jordan, K. (1903) A revision of the lepidopterous family Sphingidae. Novitates Zoologicae, 9 (Supplement), i - cxxxv + 1 - 972, 67 pls. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 9573047] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 5651
- Clark, B. P. (1930) Sundry notes on Sphingidae and descriptions of seven new forms. Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club, 12, 25 - 30.
- 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.