Published October 16, 2023
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Lopiena fuscata
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
Lopiena fuscata (Janse, 1920)
COMMON NAME(S): Prominent Moth.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Sudan, 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.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Janse
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Notodontidae
- Genus
- Lopiena
- Species
- fuscata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lopiena fuscata (Janse, 1920) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Janse, A. J. T. (1920) On the South African Notodontidae, with descriptions and apparently new genera and species. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 7 (3), 149 - 237, pls. 1 - 14. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 50361661]
- 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.