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Exelastis montischristi
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
Exelastis montischristi (Walsingham, 1897b)
COMMON NAME(S): Plume moth or Pterophorid moth.
SYNONYM(S): Pterophorus cervinicolor Barnes & McDunnough, 1913.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador (Galápagos Islands), Eswatini, Ethiopia, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Oman, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Ndola, in Copperbelt Province; Solwezi, in Northwestern Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1; Kovtunovich et al. 2014.
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 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Walsingham
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Pterophoridae
- Genus
- Exelastis
- Species
- montischristi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Exelastis montischristi (Walsingham, 1897) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Walsingham, T. de G. (1897 b) Revision of the West-Indian Micro-Lepidoptera, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1897 (1), 54 - 183. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 30987175] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 53759
- Barnes, W. & McDunnough, J. H. (1913) Some apparently new Lepidoptera from southern Florida. Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America, 2 (4), 166 - 195, pls. 1 - 4. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 11414269]
- 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)
- Kovtunovich, V. N., Ustjuzhanin, P. Y. & Murphy, R. (2014) Plume moths of Malawi (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae). Zootaxa, 3847 (4), 451 - 494. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3847.4.1