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Chrysopsyche pyriphlecta Tams 1930
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
Chrysopsyche pyriphlecta Tams, 1930
COMMON NAME(S): Slug Caterpillar Moth.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Zambia (endemic species).
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Type locality is Solwezi, in N. W. Rhodesia [now N.W. Zambia], Northwestern Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1962.
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 122, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Tams
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lasiocampidae
- Genus
- Chrysopsyche
- Species
- pyriphlecta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chrysopsyche pyriphlecta Tams, 1930 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Tams, W. H. T. (1930) New Rhodesian Lepidoptera Heterocera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 10, 6 (32), 161 - 176, pls. 6 - 8. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933.1930.11070793
- 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. (1962) New or little-known Lepidoptera from central Africa. Occasional Papers of the natural history museum in South Rhodesia, 3 (26 B), 871 - 891, pls. 1 - 2.