Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Scopula quadrifasciata

  • 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

Scopula quadrifasciata (Bastelberger, 1909b)

COMMON NAME(S): Geometer moth.

SYNONYM(S): Craspedia glaucocyma Hampson, 1910c.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Chambezi [now Chambeshi] valley, in Northern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bastelberger
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Geometridae
Genus
Scopula
Species
quadrifasciata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Scopula quadrifasciata (Bastelberger, 1909) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Bastelberger, M. J. (1909 b) Ein neues Genus und neun neue afrikanische Geometriden eus meiner Sammlung. Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift, Guben, 3 (18), 100 - 101. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 37071477]
  • 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
  • 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)