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Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
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Hampsonita esmeralda

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

Hampsonita esmeralda (Hampson, 1910a)

COMMON NAME(S): Esmeralda’s Kitten.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Togo, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): The followinsug Proteaceae species are reported as host plants of the taxon in South Africa; Protea sp., Faurea sp., F. saligna Harv., Protea caffra Meisn. and P. welwitschii Engl. (Platt 1921; Pinhey 1975; Schintlmeister & Witt 2015). Elsewhere in an unnamed African country or countries, Protea angolensis Welw. (Proteaceae) is reported as a host plant of the taxon, while no plant species are indicated as hot plants for the taxon for Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Kiriakoff 1963a –c; Pinhey 1975; Platt 1921; Schintlmeister & Witt 2015.

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

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C4B1FF2662F6FB34FED59C26

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/553187B2C4B1FF2662F6FB34FED59C26 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316381279 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C4B1FF2662F6FB34FED59C26.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hampson
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Notodontidae
Genus
Hampsonita
Species
esmeralda
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Hampsonita esmeralda (Hampson, 1910) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Hampson, G. F. (1910 a) Descriptions of new African moths. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 5 (29), 430 - 464 & 465 - 496. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 16094863] https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931008692801
  • Platt, E. E. (1921) Food plants of South African butterflies and moths. South African Journal of Natural History, 3 (1), 65 - 138. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 7072852]
  • Pinhey, E. C. G. (1975) Moths of southern Africa. Tafelberg, Cape Town, 273 pp., pls. 1 - 63.
  • Schintlmeister, A. & Witt, T. (2015) The Notodontidae of South Africa including Swaziland and Lesotho (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae). Proceedings of the Museum Witt Munich. Vol. 2. Museum Witt, Munich & Nature Research Center, Vilnius, 288 pp.
  • 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)
  • Kiriakoff, S. G. (1963 a) Exploration du Parc Albert. Deuxieme serie. Lepidoptera Heterocera (partim). Institut des Parcs nationaux du Congo belge, 16 (3), 73 - 124. [https: // biblio. naturalsciences. be / rbins-publications / institut-des-parcsnationaux-du-congo / exploration-du-parc-national-albert-deuxieme-serie-exploratie-van-het-nationaal-albert-park-tweedereeks / 16 - 1963 / irscnb _ p 4177 _ rbins 20006 _ 16 - text 3. pdf]