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Epitrabala nyassana
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
Epitrabala nyassana (Aurivillius, 1909)
COMMON NAME(S): Eggar, Snout moth (although this also refers to the Pyralidae) or Lappet moth.
SYNONYM(S): Pachymeta horridula Tams, 1925b.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province; Kashitu in Central Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975; Tams 1925b.
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 124, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Aurivillius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lasiocampidae
- Genus
- Epitrabala
- Species
- nyassana
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Epitrabala nyassana (Aurivillius, 1909) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Tams, W. H. T. (1925 b) African Lasiocampidae: notes and new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9, 16 (95), 552 - 561. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222932508633348
- 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.