Published October 16, 2023
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Prasinocyma pupillata
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
Prasinocyma pupillata (Warren, 1902)
COMMON NAME(S): Geometer moth.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Petauke, in East Loangwa [= Luangwa] district, in Eastern Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include two yet to be identified Rutaceae species namely, Citrus sp. and Clausena sp.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; 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 243, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Warren
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Geometridae
- Genus
- Prasinocyma
- Species
- pupillata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Prasinocyma pupillata (Warren, 1902) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Warren, W. (1902) New African Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Epiplemidae, and Geometridae in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae, 9, 487 - 536. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 3268556]
- 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)