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Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
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Mocis conveniens

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

Mocis conveniens (Walker, 1858c)

COMMON NAME(S): Pale brown lines.

SYNONYM(S): Remigia detersa Walker, 1865c; Ophisma ibona Pl ̂tz, 1880; Remigia latipes sensu auct. nec Guenée, 1852c.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Réunion, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Ndola and Kitwe, in CopperbeltProvince.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include a yet tobe identified Macadamia sp. (Proteaceae).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1902 a.

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

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C516FE8162F6FB03FC359F8E

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/553187B2C516FE8162F6FB03FC359F8E (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316379283 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C516FE8162F6FB03FC359F8E.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Walker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Mocis
Species
conveniens
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Mocis conveniens (Walker, 1858) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Walker, F. (1858 c) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XIV. Noctuidae. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv + 1237 - 1519. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 39337238]
  • Walker, F. (1865 c) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXXIII. Supplement Part 3. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv, 707 - 1120. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 38917760]
  • Guenee, A. M. (1852 c) Histoire naturelle des Insectes. VII. Species general des Lepidopteres. Noctuelites. Tome III. Librairie encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, 442 pp. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 9747241]
  • 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. (1902) The moths of South Africa. Part II. Annals of the South African Museum, 2, 255 - 446. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 30026963]