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Pedoptila nigrocristata Joicey & Talbot 1921
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
Pedoptila nigrocristata Joicey & Talbot, 1921
COMMON NAME(S): Long-tailed burnet moth.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Zambia (endemic species).
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Type locality, Chambezi River [now Chambeshi river] in N. E. Rhodesia [now Luapula and Northern Provinces].
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Joicey & Talbot 1921.
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 67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Joicey & Talbot
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Himantopteridae
- Genus
- Pedoptila
- Species
- nigrocristata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pedoptila nigrocristata Joicey, 1921 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Joicey, J. J. & Talbot, G. (1921) New Lepidoptera collected by Mr. T. A. Barnes, in East Central Africa. V. New Heterocera. Bulletin of the Hill Museum, 1 (1), 158 - 166. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 32286062]
- 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)