Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
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Isturgia presbitaria

  • 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

Isturgia presbitaria (Swinhoe, 1904)

COMMON NAME(S): Geometer moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Ikelenge, in Northwestern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.

SOURCES: 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 220, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Swinhoe
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Geometridae
Genus
Isturgia
Species
presbitaria
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Isturgia presbitaria (Swinhoe, 1904) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Swinhoe, C. (1904) On the Geometridae of tropical Africa in the National Collection. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1904 (3), 497 - 590. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 14684698] https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1904. tb 02755. x
  • 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