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Prasinocyma vermicularia
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 vermicularia (Guenée, 1857a)
COMMON NAME(S): Geometer moth.
SYNONYM(S): Thalassodes dilucida Walker, 1861a.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kabwe in Central Province; Mufulira and Chililabombwe in Copperbelt Province; Kafue and Lusaka in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include Clutia pulchella L. (Peraceae), Ricinus communis L. (Euphorbiaceae).
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 243, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Guenee
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Geometridae
- Genus
- Prasinocyma
- Species
- vermicularia
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Prasinocyma vermicularia (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]
- Walker, F. (1861 a) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXII. Geometrites (continued). The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv + 499 - 755. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 39713449]
- 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