Paralacydes arborifera
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
Paralacydes arborifera (Butler, 1875b)
COMMON NAME(S): Branched Ermine.
SYNONYM(S): Eutaenia scapulosa Wallengren, 1875; Caligula wallengreni Aurivillius, 1879; Conchylia smithii Holland, 1897; Lacydes gracilis Butler, 1898; Amsacta impia Strand, 1909a.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Chisamba and Serenje, in Central Province; Luanshya, in Copperbelt Province; Kafue and Lusaka, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): According to the African Moths (2019) webpage, larval foodplants of this taxon include the flat-leaved African Hyacinth, Ledebouria ovatifolia (Baker) Jessop (Asparagaceae).
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Butler
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Paralacydes
- Species
- arborifera
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Paralacydes arborifera (Butler, 1875) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Butler, A. G. (1875 b) Revision of the genus Spilosoma and the allied groups of the family Arctiidae. Cistula Entomologica, 2, 21 - 44. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 10890624]
- Wallengren, H. D. J. (1875) Insecta Transvaaliensia. - Bihang till Transvaalska Republikens i S ˆ dra Afrika Insektfauna. Ofversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens F ˆ rhandlingar, 32 (1), 83 - 137. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 32232854]
- Aurivillius, C. (1879) Lepidoptera Damarensia. F ˆ rteckning pa fjarilar insamlade i Damaralandet af G. de Vylder aren 1873 och 1874 jemte beskrifning ˆ fver f ˆ rut okanda arter. Ofversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens F ˆ rhandlingar, 36 (7), 39 - 69. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 32242893]
- Holland, W. J. (1897) List of the Lepidoptera Heterocera collected by A. Donaldson Smith. In: Smith, A. D., Through unknown African countries. The first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Rudolf. Eduard Arnold, Publisher to the India Office, London, New York, xvi + 471 pp., unnumbered pls. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 12766274]
- Butler, A. G. (1898) On a collection of Lepidoptera made in British East Africa by Mr. C. S. Betton. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 57, 395 - 444, pls. 32 - 33. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 30952752] https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1898. tb 03161. x
- Strand, E. (1909 a) Lepidopteren aus Deutsch-Ost-Afrika gesammelt von Herrn Leutnant F. Trefurth. Entomologische Rundschau, 26 (18 & 19), 107 - 109 & 115 - 116. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 10187479]
- 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)