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Bocchoris inspersalis

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

Bocchoris inspersalis (Zeller, 1852)

COMMON NAME(S): Dotted Sable.

SYNONYM(S): Desmia afflictalis Guenée, 1854; Aediodes bootanalis Walker, 1866a; Desmia stellaris Butler, 1879c; Hymenia pusaensis Bhattacherjee, 1973.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Réunion, Sao Tome & Principe, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kafue and Lusaka, in Lusaka Province; Chisamba, in Central Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval food plants of the taxon include: One Malvaceae species (Triplochiton scleroxylon K.Schum.) in Ghana (Wagner et al. 2008); one Amaranthaceae species (Telanthera versicolor Regel) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ghesquière 1942) and two Fabaceae species (Arachis hypogaea L. and Desmodium triflorum (L.) DC.) in an unnamed African country or countries (Poltavsky et al. 2018b). Without specifying in which country in Africa they occur, the African Moths (2019) webpage indicates the following as larval foodplants of the taxon; one Fabaceae species (Arachis hypogaea L. [Peanut, groundnut or monkey nut]), one Malvaceae species (Triplochiton scleroxylon K.Schum.) and one Amaranthaceae species (Telanthera versicolor Regel).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Ghesquière 1942; Hampson 1910c; Poltavsky et al. 2018b; Wagner et al. 2008.

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

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URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C42DFFBA62F6FC48FE369C12

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)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/553187B2C42DFFBA62F6FC48FE369C12 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316380641 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C42DFFBA62F6FC48FE369C12.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Zeller
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Crambidae
Genus
Bocchoris
Species
inspersalis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Bocchoris inspersalis (Zeller, 1852) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Zeller, P. C. (1852) Lepidoptera Microptera, quae J. A. Wahlberg in Caffrorum terra collegit. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Nye Handlingar, Series 3, 40, 1 - 120. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 34531645]
  • Guenee, A. M. (1854) Histoire naturelle des Insectes. VIII. Species general des Lepidopteres. Deltoides et Pyralites. Librairie encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, 448 pp. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 9825694]
  • Walker, F. (1866 a) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXXIV. Supplement Part 4. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv + 1121 - 1533. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 38918178]
  • Butler, A. G. (1879 c) Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum. Vol. 3. Printed by the order of the trustees, London, xviii + 82 pp., 20 pls.
  • Bhattacherjee, N. S. (1973) New species of the genus Hymenia Hubner (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) from India. Indian Journal of Entomology, 35 (1), 47 - 49.
  • Wagner, M. R., Cobbinah, J. R. & Bosu, P. P. (2008) Forest entomology in West Tropical Africa. Forest insects of Ghana. Second Edition. Springer, Dordrecht, lxx + 244 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 1 - 4020 - 6508 - 8
  • Ghesquiere, J. (1942) Lepidopteres Microlepidopteres (deuxieme partie). Annales du Musee du Congo belge, Zoologie 3 (Arthropodes), Section 2, Catalogues Raisonnes, Series 3, 7, 121 - 240.
  • Poltavsky, A. N., Kravchenko, V. D., Traore, M. M., Traore, S. F., Gergely, P., Witt, T. J., Sulak, H., Beck, R. H. - T., Junnila, A., Revay, E. E., Doumbia, S., Beier, J. C. & M ¸ ller, G. C. (2018 b) The Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) fauna of the woody savannah belt in Mali, West Africa. Zootaxa, 4457, (1) 39 - 69. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4457.1.2
  • 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)
  • Hampson, G. F. (1910 c) Zoological collections from Northern Rhodesia and adjacent territories: Lepidoptera Phalaenae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1910 (2), 388 - 510, pls. 36 - 41. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31563124] https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1910. tb 01899. x