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Metajana marshalli
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
Metajana marshalli (Aurivillius, 1909)
COMMON NAME(S): Marshall’s Lappet.
SYNONYM(S): Craspia rhypara Hering, 1928b.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Burundi, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Combretum hereroense Schinz (Combretaceae) has been reported as the host plant of the taxon in Zimbabwe but no host plant has yet been named for the taxon in Zambia.
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 128, 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
- Metajana
- Species
- marshalli
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Metajana marshalli (Aurivillius, 1909) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Hering, E. M. (1928 b) Alte und neue Lasiocampiden von Afrika im Zoologischen Museum Berlin. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 14 (3 - 4), 487 - 499, pls. 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)
- Pinhey, E. C. G. (1975) Moths of southern Africa. Tafelberg, Cape Town, 273 pp., pls. 1 - 63.