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Zeuctoboarmia hyrax
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
Zeuctoboarmia hyrax (Townsend, 1952)
COMMON NAME(S): Geometer moth.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Choma in Southern Province; Kafue in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Schinus molle L. an Anacardiaceae species is a host plant of the taxon in Kenya (Townsend 1952). No host plant is associated with the taxon in Zambia.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1; Townsend 1952.
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 236, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Townsend
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Geometridae
- Genus
- Zeuctoboarmia
- Species
- hyrax
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Zeuctoboarmia hyrax (Townsend, 1952) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Townsend, A. L. H. (1952) Four new Kenya moths. Journal of the East African Natural History Society, 20, 68 - 71. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 50931162]
- 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)