Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
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Zygophyxia roseocincta

  • 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

Zygophyxia roseocincta (Warren, 1899a)

COMMON NAME(S): Geometer moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Warren
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Geometridae
Genus
Zygophyxia
Species
roseocincta
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Zygophyxia roseocincta (Warren, 1899) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Warren, W. (1899 a) New species and genera of the families Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Uraniidae, Epiplemidae, and Geometridae from the Old-World regions. Novitates Zoologicae, 6 (1), 1 - 66. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 3258789]
  • 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)
  • Pinhey, E. C. G. (1975) Moths of southern Africa. Tafelberg, Cape Town, 273 pp., pls. 1 - 63.