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Mountelgonia abercornensis Lehmann 2013
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
Mountelgonia abercornensis Lehmann, 2013
COMMON NAME(S): Tropical carpenter moth, Carpenter moth or Goat moth.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Zambia (endemic species).
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Type Locality Abercorn [Mow Mbala: Latitude, - 8°50’0” South; Longitude, 31°22’0” East], in N Rhodesia [now Zambia], in Northern Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Lehmann 2013.
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 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Lehmann
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Metarbelidae
- Genus
- Mountelgonia
- Species
- abercornensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mountelgonia abercornensis Lehmann, 2013 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Lehmann, I. (2013) Description of two new genera and ten new species of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea) from western, north-central and eastern Africa with notes on habitats and biogeography. Privately published, I. Lehmann, Wismar, 81 pp. [http: // www. phegea. org / Documents / Lehmann _ 2013. pdf] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 79421
- 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)