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Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
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Euproutia aggravaria

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

Euproutia aggravaria (Guenée, 1857a)

COMMON NAME(S): Pebble Emerald.

SYNONYM(S): Comibaena rhodosticta (Hampson, 1910c); Heterorachis rubella Warren, 1904; Metacineta semialbifrons (Prout L. B., 1915).

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Petauke, E Luangwa District in Eastern Province is type locality for the synonym Euproutia aggravaria rhodosticta (Hampson, 1910c) above.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include Bauhinia sp. (Fabaceae).

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

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C4A0FF3762F6FBD0FD049FFB

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/10130434 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/A908FFCAC44EFFD96261FFB3FFBF9A67 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/553187B2C4A0FF3762F6FBD0FD049FFB (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316379981 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C4A0FF3762F6FBD0FD049FFB.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Guenee
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Geometridae
Genus
Euproutia
Species
aggravaria
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Euproutia aggravaria (Guenee, 1857) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Guenee, A. M. (1857 a) In: Boisduval, J. A. B. & Guenee, A. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Species general des Lepidopteres. IX. Uranides et Phalenites. Tome I. Librairie encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, xxxvii + 514 pp. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 9812038]
  • 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
  • Warren, W. (1904) New Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Uraniidae, and Geometridae from the Aethiopian Region. Novitates Zoologicae, 11, 461 - 482. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 3859215]
  • 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)