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Idaea exquisita
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
Idaea exquisita (Warren, 1897b)
COMMON NAME(S): Geometer moth.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Chongwe in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Fletcher 1955.
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 249, 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
- Idaea
- Species
- exquisita
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Idaea exquisita (Warren, 1897) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Warren, W. (1897 b) New genera and species of Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Epiplemidae, Uraniidae and Geometridae in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae, 4, 195 - 262, pl. 5. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 3219061] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 1646
- 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)
- Fletcher, D. S. (1955) Geometridae. Exploration du Parc Naturel d'Upemba. Mission G. F. de Witte 1946 - 1949, 32 (5), 79 - 92.