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Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
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Aletis libyssa

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

Aletis libyssa (Hopffer, 1857)

COMMON NAME(S): Monarch Looper.

SYNONYM(S): Aletis monteironis Druce, 1883; Cartaletis entebbena Strand, 1921a.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include three Rubiaceae species namely, Oxyanthus latifolius Sond., O. speciosus DC. and Randia sp. (African Moths 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; 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 247, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C4B8FF2F62F6FA98FD5F9C02

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/10130434 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/A908FFCAC44EFFD96261FFB3FFBF9A67 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/553187B2C4B8FF2F62F6FA98FD5F9C02 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316379652 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C4B8FF2F62F6FA98FD5F9C02.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hopffer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Geometridae
Genus
Aletis
Species
libyssa
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Aletis libyssa (Hopffer, 1857) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Hopffer, H. C. (1857) Diagnosen der von Peters aus Mossambique mitgebrachten Lepidoptera. Monatsberichte der K ˆ niglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1857, 421 - 423. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 11071445]
  • Druce, H. (1883) Descriptions of new species of Heterocera. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 20, 155 - 157. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 9267821]
  • 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)