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Hypena verticalis Hampson 1910

  • 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

Hypena verticalis Hampson, 1910c

COMMON NAME(S): Hypenine moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Kenya, Madagascar, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Type locality for the Paralectotype (♂) is Lofu River valley, on Tanganyika plateau [Altitude, 3500 ft. or 1066.8 m] in NE Rhodesia [now NE Zambia], in Northern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; 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 page 359, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hampson
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Hypena
Species
verticalis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Hypena verticalis Hampson, 1910 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • 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
  • 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)