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Arniocera auriguttata Hopffer 1857

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

Arniocera auriguttata Hopffer, 1857

COMMON NAME(S): Gold Spotted Burnet.

SYNONYM(S): Arichalca melanopyga Wallengren, 1860; Arniocera chrysosticta Butler, 1898.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Luangwa bridge between Lusaka and Eastern Province and Mid Luangwa valley in Eastern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include a Grewia sp. (Malvaceae).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1; Pinhey 1975.

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

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C40BFF9C62F6FE68FA9598B2

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/553187B2C40BFF9C62F6FE68FA9598B2 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316378313 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C40BFF9C62F6FE68FA9598B2.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hopffer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Thyrididae
Genus
Arniocera
Species
auriguttata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Arniocera auriguttata Hopffer, 1857 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Hopffer, H. C. (1857) Diagnosen der von Peters aus Mossambique mitgebrachten Lepidoptera. Monatsberichte der K ˆ niglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1857, 421 - 423. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 11071445]
  • Wallengren, H. D. J. (1860) Lepidopterologische Mittheilungen. Wiener entomologische Monatschrift, 4 (2 & 6), 33 - 46 & 161 - 176. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31290301]
  • Butler, A. G. (1898) On a collection of Lepidoptera made in British East Africa by Mr. C. S. Betton. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 57, 395 - 444, pls. 32 - 33. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 30952752] https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1898. tb 03161. 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)
  • Pinhey, E. C. G. (1975) Moths of southern Africa. Tafelberg, Cape Town, 273 pp., pls. 1 - 63.