Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1

Comostolopsis stillata

  • 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

Comostolopsis stillata (Felder & Rogenhoffer, 1875)

COMMON NAME(S): Pink-laced Emerald.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Namibia, Republic of Congo, Sao Tome & Principe, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Livingstone, in Southern Province; Mumbwa, in Central Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): The African Moths (2019) reports that larval foodplants of this taxon include the spike thorn, Gymnosporia heterophylla (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Loes (Celastraceae).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Bingham et al. 2010; De Prins & De Prins 2022.

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

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References

  • African Moths (2019) Not available anymore from https: // africanmoths. com / (accessed 23 November 2019)
  • Bingham, M. G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B. T., Ballings, P. & Hyde, M. A. (2010) Flora of Zambia: Insects. Available from: http: // www. zambiaflora. com / speciesdata / insects. php (accessed 10 November 2017)
  • 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)