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Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
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Simplicia extinctalis

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

Simplicia extinctalis (Zeller, 1852)

COMMON NAME(S): Litter moth.

SYNONYM(S): Simplicia inarcualis Guenée, 1854; Sophronia capalis Walker, 1859a; Zanclognatha caffraria M̂schler, 1884; Simplicia inareolalis Fryer, 1912.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cabo Verde, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Réunion, Saint Helena, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Livingstone, in Southern Province; Kafue and Lusaka, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): A yet to be identified Geraniaceae species (Pelargonium sp.) is a host plant of the taxon in Saint Helena (Karisch, 2001), while an Anacardiaceae species (Mangifera indica L.) and a Cannabaceae species (Cannabis sativa L.) are host plants of the taxon in the Réunion (Bippus 2016b, 2018). Larval foodplants of the taxon also include two Fabaceae species (i.e. Acacia mearnsi De Wild. and Medicago sativa L.), an Oleaceae species (Olea sp.). a Rubiaceae species (Coffea sp.) and a Proteaceae species (Macadamia sp.).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Bippus 2016b; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; Karisch, 2001; Hacker 2021.

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 pages 355-356, 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/553187B2C52CFEBA62F6F9DCFA889B6A

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/553187B2C52CFEBA62F6F9DCFA889B6A (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316378806 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C52CFEBA62F6F9DCFA889B6A.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Zeller
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Simplicia
Species
extinctalis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Simplicia extinctalis (Zeller, 1852) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Zeller, P. C. (1852) Lepidoptera Microptera, quae J. A. Wahlberg in Caffrorum terra collegit. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Nye Handlingar, Series 3, 40, 1 - 120. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 34531645]
  • Guenee, A. M. (1854) Histoire naturelle des Insectes. VIII. Species general des Lepidopteres. Deltoides et Pyralites. Librairie encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, 448 pp. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 9825694]
  • Walker, F. (1859 a) List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XVI. Deltoides. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, iv + 253 pp. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 38951345]
  • Fryer, J. C. F. (1912) The Lepidoptera of Seychelles and Aldabra, exclusive of the Orneodidae and Pterophoridae and of the Tortricina and Tineina. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, Series 2, 15 (1), 1 - 28, pl. 1. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 16418982] https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1912. tb 00086. x
  • Karisch, T. (2001) Zur Schmetterlingsfauna von St. Helena. 1. Teil: Grossschmetterlinge (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Linzer biologische Beitrage, 33 (1), 407 - 434.
  • Bippus, M. (2016 b) Corrections and Additions on Lepidoptera from the Seychelles and the Mascarenes. Phelsuma, 27 (7), 80 - 82.
  • Bippus, M. (2018) New Erebidae from the Mascarene islands and about some Madagascar Lepidoptera (Lepidoptera: Erebidae). Phelsuma, 26, 10 - 43.
  • 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