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Leptolepida varians

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

Leptolepida varians (Kiriakoff, 1962c)

COMMON NAME(S): Prominent or Notodontid moth.

SYNONYM(S): Leptolepida rhodesiae Kiriakoff, 1965; Stenostaura elegans Kiriakoff, 1970; Jozinia leonina Kiriakoff, 1970.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; 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 263, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C548FEDF62F6FD5CFC97998E

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/553187B2C548FEDF62F6FD5CFC97998E (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316381291 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C548FEDF62F6FD5CFC97998E.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Kiriakoff
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Notodontidae
Genus
Leptolepida
Species
varians
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Leptolepida varians (Kiriakoff, 1962) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Kiriakoff, S. G. (1962 c) Notodontidae africains nouveaux (Lepidoptera). IV. Annales du Musee du Congo belge, Zoologie, 3 (Arthropodes), Section 2, Catalogues Raisonnes, 114, 1 - 52, pls. 1 - 6.
  • Kiriakoff, S. G. (1965) Notodontidae africains nouveaux. VII. Bulletin & Annales de la Societe entomologique de Belgique, 101 (18), 331 - 340.
  • Kiriakoff, S. G. (1970) Notodontidae africains nouveaux, X (Lepidoptera: Notodontoidea). Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 26 (9), 183 - 198.
  • 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)
  • 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.