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Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
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Somatina vestalis

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

Somatina vestalis (Butler, 1875a)

COMMON NAME(S): Vestal Birdling.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mterise River in Mid Luangwa valley, N.E. Rhodesia [now N.E. Zambia] in East Loangwa district [Luangwa district], Eastern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.

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 254, 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/553187B2C4B3FF2462F6FF6CFC36987F

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/553187B2C4B3FF2462F6FF6CFC36987F (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316379972 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C4B3FF2462F6FF6CFC36987F.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Butler
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Geometridae
Genus
Somatina
Species
vestalis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Somatina vestalis (Butler, 1875) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Butler, A. G. (1875 a) On a collection of Lepidoptera from southern Africa, with descriptions of new genera and species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 4, 16 (96), 394 - 420. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222937508681878
  • 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)
  • Hampson, G. F. (1910 c) Zoological collections from Northern Rhodesia and adjacent territories: Lepidoptera Phalaenae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1910 (2), 388 - 510, pls. 36 - 41. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31563124] https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1910. tb 01899. x