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Classeya quadricuspis
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
Classeya quadricuspis (Hampson, 1919b)
COMMON NAME(S): Grass moth or Crambid Snout Moth.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia, Kenya, Zambia.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Type locality is Victoria Falls on the Zambesi [now Zambezi] River in Livingstone, Southern Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1919b.
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 92, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Hampson
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Crambidae
- Genus
- Classeya
- Species
- quadricuspis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Classeya quadricuspis (Hampson, 1919) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Hampson, G. F. (1919 b) Descriptions of new Pyralidae of the subfamilies Crambinae and Siginae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9, 3, 275 - 292 + 437 - 457 + 533 - 547. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 18637582] https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931908673855
- 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)