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Antinephele lunulata Rothschild 1903
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
Antinephele lunulata Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
COMMON NAME(S): Hawk moth, Sphinx moth or Hornworm.
SYNONYM(S): Antinephele weberi Clark, 1923.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Republic of Congo, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mpika, in Muchinga Province; Mbala, in Northern Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
SOURCES: D’Abrera 1987; De Prins & De Prins 2022.
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 192, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Rothschild
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Genus
- Antinephele
- Species
- lunulata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Antinephele lunulata Rothschild, 1903 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Rothschild, W. & Jordan, K. (1903) A revision of the lepidopterous family Sphingidae. Novitates Zoologicae, 9 (Supplement), i - cxxxv + 1 - 972, 67 pls. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 9573047] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 5651
- Clark, B. P. (1923) Thirty-three new Sphingidae. Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club, 8, 47 - 77. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 11273049] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 4001
- D'Abrera, B. (1987) Sphingidae Mundi. Hawk Moths of the world based on a checklist by Alan Hayes and the collection he curated in the British Museum (Natural History). E. W. Classey Ltd., Faringdon, 226 pp.
- 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)