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Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
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Anadiasa punctifascia

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

Anadiasa punctifascia (Walker, 1855d)

COMMON NAME(S): Chestnut Eggarlet.

SYNONYM(S): Nyssia sobria Walker, 1865b.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE)

DISTRIBUTION: Djibouti, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Acacia mollissima Willd., A. caffra (Thunb.) Willd. and Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi & Galasso from the plant family Fabaceae are host plants of the taxon in South Africa. The Fabaceae species namely, Acacia mollissima, is the host plant of the taxon in Tanzania, while a Peltophorum sp. (Fabaceae) is a host plant of the taxon in an unnamed place elsewhere in Africa. No host plant has yet been reported for the taxon in Zambia. The African Moths (2019) webpage, on the other hand, list the following as larval foodplants of the taxon: Four Fabaceae species, A. caffra (Thunb.) Willd., A. karroo Hayne, Acacia mearnsii De Wild. and Peltophorum africanum Sond. and one Proteaceae species namely, Grevillea robusta A.Cunn. ex R.Br.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; 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 120, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C439FFAE62F6FF6CFCDA98DE

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/553187B2C439FFAE62F6FF6CFCDA98DE (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316378566 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C439FFAE62F6FF6CFCDA98DE.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Walker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Lasiocampidae
Genus
Anadiasa
Species
punctifascia
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Anadiasa punctifascia (Walker, 1855) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Walker, F. (1855 d) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Lepidoptera Heterocera. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv + 1259 - 1507. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 38953029]
  • Walker, F. (1865 b) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXXII. Supplement Part 2. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 32, i - iv, 323 - 706. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 38916881]
  • 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.