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Plecopterodes moderata

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

Plecopterodes moderata (Wallengren, 1860)

COMMON NAME(S): Moderate Drab.

SYNONYM(S): Heliothis variabilis Mabille, 1890a; Remigia alypophanes Bethune-Baker, 1911.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mid and Lower Zambezi valley, in Southern and Lusaka Provinces, respectively.

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

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C513FE8462F6FA0CFC369CBF

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/553187B2C513FE8462F6FA0CFC369CBF (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316378838 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C513FE8462F6FA0CFC369CBF.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Wallengren
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Plecopterodes
Species
moderata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Plecopterodes moderata (Wallengren, 1860) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Wallengren, H. D. J. (1860) Lepidopterologische Mittheilungen. Wiener entomologische Monatschrift, 4 (2 & 6), 33 - 46 & 161 - 176. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31290301]
  • Mabille, P. (1890 a) Voyage de M. Ch. Alluaud dans le territoire d'Assinie (Afrique occidentale) en juillet et ao r t 1886, 4 e memoire; Lepidopteres, avec des notes sur quelques autres especes d'Afrique (Rhopalocera et Heterocera). Annales de la Societe entomologique de France, Series 6, 10 (1), 17 - 51, pls. 2 + 3. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 8234327]
  • Bethune-Baker, G. T. (1911) Descriptions of new African Heterocera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 7 (42), 530 - 576. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 22098491] https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931108692976
  • 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