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Metarctia fulvia Hampson 1901
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
Metarctia fulvia Hampson, 1901d
COMMON NAME(S): Tussock moth.
SYNONYM(S): Metarctia neaera Fawcett, 1915.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
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 306, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Hampson
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Metarctia
- Species
- fulvia
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Metarctia fulvia Hampson, 1901 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Hampson, G. F. (1901 d) n. k. In: Ragonot, E. L., Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae. In: Romanoff, N. M., Memoires sur les Lepidopteres. Vol. 8. Imprimerie de M. M. Stassulewitch, St. Petersburg, pp. i - xli + 507 + pp. 1 - 560, pls. 24 - 57. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 33667649]
- Fawcett, J. M. (1915) Notes on a collection of Heterocera made made by Mr. W. Feather in British East Africa, 1911 - 12. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1915 (1), 91 - 113, pls. 1 - 2. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31750730] https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1915.00091. x
- 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)