Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Deinarchia agramma

  • 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

Deinarchia agramma (Hampson, 1910c)

COMMON NAME(S): Prominent or Notodontid moth.

SYNONYM(S): Stauropus aeschyntela Tams, 1930.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mwinilunga and Solwezi, in Northwestern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Kiriakoff 1958.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

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

References

  • 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
  • Tams, W. H. T. (1930) New Rhodesian Lepidoptera Heterocera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 10, 6 (32), 161 - 176, pls. 6 - 8. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933.1930.11070793
  • 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. (1958) Les Notodontidae africains (Lepidoptera Notodontoidea). Desmeocraera et genres voisins. Annales du Musee du Congo belge, Zoologie, 3 (Arthropodes), Section 2, Catalogues Raisonnes, 66, 1 - 89, pls. 1 - 10.