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Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
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Aegocera fervida

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

Aegocera fervida (Walker, 1854a)

COMMON NAME(S): Fervid Tiger.

SYNONYM(S): Aegocera triphaenoides Wallengren, 1860; Aegocera fimbria M̂schler, 1872; Aegocera affinis Druce, 1883; Aegoceropsis norma Karsch, 1895a; Aegocera fuscicosta Jordan, 1913; Aegocera media Jordan, 1913; Aegoceropsis septentrionalis Kiriakoff, 1975a.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Republic of Congo, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include two Vitaceae species namely, Rhoicissus digitata Gilg & M.Brandt and Rhoicissus tridentata (L.f.) Wild & R.B.Drumm.

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

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C5C6FE5162F6FBFCFC369FAF

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/553187B2C5C6FE5162F6FBFCFC369FAF (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316380243 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C5C6FE5162F6FBFCFC369FAF.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Walker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Aegocera
Species
fervida
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Aegocera fervida (Walker, 1854) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Walker, F. (1854 a) List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Lepidoptera Heterocera. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, iv + 278 pp. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 39418049]
  • Wallengren, H. D. J. (1860) Lepidopterologische Mittheilungen. Wiener entomologische Monatschrift, 4 (2 & 6), 33 - 46 & 161 - 176. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31290301]
  • Druce, H. (1883) Descriptions of new species of Heterocera. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 20, 155 - 157. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 9267821]
  • Karsch, F. (1895 a) Aethiopische Heteroceren. I. Entomologische Nachrichten, 21 (22), 337 - 360, pls. 1 - 2. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 25411577]
  • Jordan, K. (1913) Agaristidae. In: Seitz, A., Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Vol. 15. Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 1 - 29. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 10354452]
  • Kiriakoff, S. G. (1975 a) Les Agaristidae de la Republique du Zaire (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines, 89 (1), 37 - 91.
  • 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