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Nephele comma Hopffer 1857

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

Nephele comma Hopffer, 1857 *

COMMON NAME(S): Comma Nephele hawkmoth, Comma Nephele or Comma hawkmoth.

SYNONYM(S): Nephele derasa Rothschild & Jordan, 1903; Nephele triangulifera Closs, 1914.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mayotte, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, South Africa, Sudan, Togo, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: University of Zambia (Lusaka) ** and Kafue, in Lusaka Province; Livingstone, Pemba, Choma and Monze ** in Southern Province; Ndola, Mufulira, Kitwe, Chingola and Chililabombwe in Copperbelt Province; Two unnamed localities [Latitude, - 12.59102 S; Longitude, 30.25436 E & Latitude, - 12.56282 S; Longitude, 30.27907 E] in Central Province; Solwezi and Mwinilunga, in Northwestern Province; Sesheke, Mongu and Kalabo in Western Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: Two Apocynaceae species (Diplorhynchus condylocarpon (M̧ll.Arg.) Pichon and Carissa sp.) in South Africa (MacNulty 1970); one Fabaceae species (Anthonotha macrophylla P.Beauv.) in Nigeria (MacNulty 1970) and two Apocynaceae species (Landolphia calabarica and L. owariensis P.Beauv.) in Côte d’Ivoire (Vuattoux et al. 1989). No larval foodplants have been reported for Zambia in the literature.

The African Moths (2019) webpage indicates that the following are larval foodplants of the taxon without specifying in which of the above countries in Africa, they are found; one Fabaceae species (Anthobotha macrophylla P.Beauv) and five Apocynaceae species (Carissa macrocarpa (Eckl.) A.DC., C. bispinosa (L.) Desf. ex Brenan, Diplorhynchus condylocarpon (M̧ll.Arg.) Pichon, Landolphia calabarica (Stapf) E.A.Bruce and L. owariensis P.Beauv.).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; MacNulty 1970; Scan-bugs Organization 2019a; Vuattoux et al. 1989.

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 pages 182-183, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C4FBFF6F62F6F94CFDD598CA

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)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/553187B2C4FBFF6F62F6F94CFDD598CA (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316378273 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C4FBFF6F62F6F94CFDD598CA.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hopffer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Sphingidae
Genus
Nephele
Species
comma
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Nephele comma Hopffer, 1857 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Hopffer, H. C. (1857) Diagnosen der von Peters aus Mossambique mitgebrachten Lepidoptera. Monatsberichte der K ˆ niglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1857, 421 - 423. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 11071445]
  • Rothschild, W. & Jordan, K. (1903) A revision of the lepidopterous family Sphingidae. Novitates Zoologicae, 9 (Supplement), i - cxxxv + 1 - 972, 67 pls. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 9573047] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 5651
  • Closs, A. (1914) Nephele triangulifera forma nova (Lep. Het. Sphing.). Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift, Guben, 7 (47), 317. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 37081706]
  • MacNulty, B. J. (1970) Outline life histories of some West African Lepidoptera. Part III. Sphingidae. Proceedings of the British Entomological and Natural History Society, 3, 95 - 122, pl. 6.
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Scan-bugs Organization (2019 a) Zambia. The Davidson College Entomology Collection. Available from: http: // scan-bugs. org / portal / collections / misc / collprofiles. php? collid = 127 & acronym + DCH (accessed 25 January 2023)