Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
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Conolophia conscitaria

  • 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

Conolophia conscitaria (Walker, 1861b)

COMMON NAME(S): Partaker.

SYNONYM(S): Panagra consentaria Walker, 1863a; Panagra smilodontaria Snellen, 1872; Conolophia maculata Bastelberger, 1908; Conolophia rubrifusa Bastelberger, 1909a.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Oman, Republic of Congo, Réunion, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka in Lusaka Province; Mid Luangwa Valley and Petauke in Eastern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.

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 204, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Walker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Geometridae
Genus
Conolophia
Species
conscitaria
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Conolophia conscitaria (Walker, 1861) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Walker, F. (1861 b) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXIII. Geometrites (continued). The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv + 757 - 1020. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 39713667]
  • Walker, F. (1863 a) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXVI. Geometrites (continued). The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv + 1479 - 1796. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 38947205]
  • Snellen, P. C. T. (1872) Bijdrage tot de vlinder-fauna van Neder-Guinea, zuidwestelijk gedeelte van Afrika. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 15, 1 - 110, pls. 1 - 8. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 10839081]
  • Bastelberger, M. J. (1908) Besprechung und Beschreibung einiger neuer oder sonst interessanter Arten von exotischen Geometriden im Naturhistorischen Museum zu Wiesbaden. Jahrb ¸ cher des Nassauischen Vereins f ¸ r Naturkunde, Wiesbaden, 61, 72 - 77.
  • Bastelberger, M. J. (1909 a) Beschreibung eines neuen Genus und f ¸ nf neuer Spannerarten aus Angola in meiner Sammlung. Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift, Guben, 2 (45), 281 - 285. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 37086718]
  • 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)
  • Hampson, G. F. (1910 c) Zoological collections from Northern Rhodesia and adjacent territories: Lepidoptera Phalaenae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1910 (2), 388 - 510, pls. 36 - 41. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31563124] https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1910. tb 01899. x