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Metamicroptera rotundata Hulstaert 1923
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
Metamicroptera rotundata Hulstaert, 1923
COMMON NAME(S): Tiger Moth.
SYNONYM(S): Balacra paradoxa Hering, 1932.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Zambia.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka and Kafue, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Przybylowicz 2005.
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 305, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Hulstaert
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Metamicroptera
- Species
- rotundata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Metamicroptera rotundata Hulstaert, 1923 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Hulstaert, P. G. (1923) Heteroceres nouveaux du Congo belge. Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines, 11 (4), 406 - 411.
- Hering, E. M. (1932) Neue Heteroceren aus Afrika. Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines, 22 (1), 102 - 117, pls. 1 - 2.
- 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)
- Przybylowicz, L. (2005) A new Afrotropical species of Metamicroptera Hulstaert, 1923 with the first record of M. rotunda Hulst. from Zambia (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 48 B (14 - 2), 139 - 144.