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Scirpophaga melanoclista Meyrick 1935
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
Scirpophaga melanoclista Meyrick, 1935a
COMMON NAME(S): Grass moth or Crambid Snout Moth.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Madagascar, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Zambia.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kabwe, in Central Province; Lusaka, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Lewvanich 1981.
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 99, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Meyrick
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Crambidae
- Genus
- Scirpophaga
- Species
- melanoclista
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scirpophaga melanoclista Meyrick, 1935 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Meyrick, E. (1935 a) n. k. Exotic Microlepidoptera, Marlborough, 4 (18 - 19), 545 - 608. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 60386769]
- 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)
- Lewvanich, A. (1981) A revision of the Old-World species of Scirpophaga (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of natural History, Entomology, 42 (4), 185 - 298. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 2247195]