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Xanthisthisa niveifrons
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
Xanthisthisa niveifrons (Prout, 1922c)
COMMON NAME(S): White headed thorn.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kitwe in Copperbelt Province; Lusaka and Kafue in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Pinhey (1975) reports that a yet to be identified Cupressaceae species, Cupressus sp., and a Pinaceae species, Pinus sp., are hot plants of the taxon.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1; 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 229, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Prout
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Geometridae
- Genus
- Xanthisthisa
- Species
- niveifrons
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Xanthisthisa niveifrons (Prout, 1922) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Prout, L. B. (1922 c) Geometridae. In: Prout, L. B. & Prout, A. E., New South African Heterocera. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 8 (3), pp. 149 - 186, pl. 1. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 50414672]
- Pinhey, E. C. G. (1975) Moths of southern Africa. Tafelberg, Cape Town, 273 pp., pls. 1 - 63.
- 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)