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Traminda neptunaria

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

Traminda neptunaria (Guenée, 1857b)

COMMON NAME(S): Geometer moth.

SYNONYM(S): Timandra viridipennaria Guenée, 1857b.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Oman, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Togo, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mid Luangwa valley, in Eastern Province; Kabwe, in Central Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): The larval foodplant in Kenya is said to be Vachellia tortilis (Forssk.) Galasso & Banfi (Fabaceae). Another, but unnamed Acacia species and Dichrostachys cinerea (L.) Wight & Arn. also in Fabaceae are host plants of the taxon elsewhere in Africa. No specific host plants have been reported for the taxon in Zambia. However, since these plants are present in Zambia, most likely the species also feeds on them in the country. The African Moths (2019) webpage lists three Fabaceae species namely, Vachellia tortilis (Forssk.) Galasso & Banfi, Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi & Galasso and Ditrostachys cinerea (L.) Wight & Arn as larval foodplants of the taxon.

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

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C4B3FF2462F6FC48FC369F93

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/553187B2C4B3FF2462F6FC48FC369F93 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316379742 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C4B3FF2462F6FC48FC369F93.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

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

References

  • Guenee, A. M. (1857 b) n. k. In: Boisduval, J. A. B. & Guenee, A. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Species general des Lepidopteres. X. Uranides et Phalenites. Tome II. Librairie encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, pp. 1 - 584. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 9807810]
  • 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