Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1

Epaena inops

  • 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

Epaena inops (Gaede, 1917a)

COMMON NAME(S): Picture-winged leaf moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Serenje, in Central Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1; Whalley 1971.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gaede
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Thyrididae
Genus
Epaena
Species
inops
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Epaena inops (Gaede, 1917) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Gaede, M. (1917 a) Die Athiopischen Thyrididen nach dem Material des Berliner Zoologischen Museums. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 8 (3), 355 - 384. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 30243810]
  • 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)
  • Whalley, P. E. S. (1971) The Thyrididae (Lepidoptera) of Africa and its islands. A taxonomic and zoogeographic study. Bulletin of the British Museum of natural History, Entomology, Supplement 17, 1 - 198, pls. 1 - 68. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 40875442] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / p. 144967