Euchloron megaera
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
Euchloron megaera (Linnaeus, 1758)
COMMON NAME(S): Verdant hawkmoth or Verdant Hawk.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Central African Republic, South Africa, Zambia.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Chingola, in Copperbelt Province; Lusaka and Kafue, in Lusaka Province; Livingstone, in Southern Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: two Vitaceae species (Cissus arguta Hook.f. and Cissus petiolata Hook.f.) in Côte d’Ivoire (Vuattoux et al. 1989); one Fabaceae species (Vigna sp.) in South Africa (Fawcett 1902) and three Vitaceae species (Parthenocissus quinquefolia (L.) Planch., Ampelopsis sp. and Cissus sp.) in unnamed African country or countries (Aurivillius 1925; MacNulty 1967; Martiré & Rochat 2008).
The following Vitaceae species are listed as larval foodplants of the taxon by the African Moths (2019) webpage without specifying countries in Africa where they are found; (Vigna sp., Cissus trothae Gilg & M.Brandt, C. petiolata Hook.f., C. arguta Hook.f., Vitis vinifera L., Parthenocissus quinquefolia (L.) Planch. and Rhoicissus tridentata (L.f.) Wild & R.B.Drumm.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Aurivillius 1925; D’Abrera 1987; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Fawcett 1902; MacNulty 1967; Martiré & Rochat 2008; Vuattoux et al. 1989.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Genus
- Euchloron
- Species
- megaera
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Euchloron megaera (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Vol. 1. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius, Stockholm, 824 pp. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 25033847] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 542
- Vuattoux, R., Pierre, J. & Haxaire, J. (1989) Les Sphinx de Cote-d'Ivoire, avec des donnees nouvelles sur les elevages effectues a la Station ecologique de Lamto (Lep. Sphingidae). Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 93 (7 - 8), 239 - 255. [https: // www. persee. fr / doc / bsef _ 0037 - 928 x _ 1988 _ num _ 93 _ 7 _ 17560] https: // doi. org / 10.3406 / bsef. 1988.17560
- Fawcett, J. M. (1902) On the transformation of Papilio dardanus Brown and Philamtelus megaera; and on two new species of South-African Heterocera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1902 (2), 304 - 307, pl. 26. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31543403]
- MacNulty, B. J. (1967) Outline life histories of some West African Lepidoptera. Part II. Limacodidae. Proceedings of the British Entomological and Natural History Society, 1967, 1 - 14.
- Martire, D. & Rochat, J. (2008) Les papillons de La Reunion et leurs chenilles. Biotope, Meze (Collection Parthenope). Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 496 pp.
- African Moths (2019) Not available anymore from https: // africanmoths. com / (accessed 23 November 2019)
- D'Abrera, B. (1987) Sphingidae Mundi. Hawk Moths of the world based on a checklist by Alan Hayes and the collection he curated in the British Museum (Natural History). E. W. Classey Ltd., Faringdon, 226 pp.
- 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)