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Phylloxiphia vicina Rothschild & Jordan 1915
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
Phylloxiphia vicina (Rothschild & Jordan, 1915)
COMMON NAME(S): Hooked Redwing Hawkmoth
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Liberia, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province; Chisamba, in Central Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include Ochna schweinfurthiana F.Hoffm. (Family: Ochnaceae).
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hayes 1971.
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 195, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Rothschild & Jordan
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Genus
- Phylloxiphia
- Species
- vicina
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Phylloxiphia vicina Rothschild, 1915 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Rothschild, W. & Jordan, K. (1915) Thirteen new Sphingidae. Novitates Zoologicae, 22, 281 - 291, pl. 20. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 3151652] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 1921
- 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)
- Hayes, A. H. (1971) A revision of the African genus Phylloxiphia Rothschild & Jordan (Lep. Sphingidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of natural History, Entomology, 26, 229 - 243. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 2329209]