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Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
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Eublemma scitula

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

Eublemma scitula (Rambur, 1833)

COMMON NAME(S): Grey Eublemma

SYNONYM(S): Eublemma almaviva Berio, 1947; Eublemma atrimedia Hampson, 1914b; Eulocastra cretacea Hampson, 1893b; Nola exasperata Lederer, 1855; Erastria futilis Swinhoe, 1884; Eublemma geyeri Rothschild, 1915a; Agrophila gibbosa Snellen, 1872.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Chilanga, Kafue and Lusaka, in Lusaka Province; Kabwe, in Central Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larvae of the taxon feed on scale insects (Super family Coccoidea) including Ceroplastes a wax scale insect in the family Coccidae and Coccus hesperidium Linnaeus, 1758, a soft scale insect in the same family, Coccidae.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.

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

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C578FEEF62F6FEA8FCDA98B2

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/553187B2C578FEEF62F6FEA8FCDA98B2 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316380394 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C578FEEF62F6FEA8FCDA98B2.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Rambur
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Eublemma
Species
scitula
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Eublemma scitula (Rambur, 1833) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Rambur, P. - J. (1833) Suite du Catalogue des Lepidopteres de l'ile de Corse, avec la description et la figure des especes inedites. Annales de la Societe entomologique de France, 2, 1 - 59, pls. 1 - 2. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 32293747]
  • Berio, E. (1947) Diagnosi di alcune Erastriinae africane (Lep. Noctuidae). Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana, 26, 12 - 15.
  • Hampson, G. F. (1914 b) Descriptions of new genera and species of Noctuidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 13 (73 & 74) & 197 - 223. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 15818375] https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931408693467
  • Hampson, G. F. (1893 b) Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum. Part IX. The Macrolepidoptera Heterocera of Ceylon. Taylor & Francis, London, iv + 182 pp., pls. 157 - 176. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 40444042]
  • Lederer, J. (1855) Beitrag zur eine Schmetterlings-Fauna von Cypern, Beirut und einem Theile Kleinasiens. Verhandlungen der zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft Wien, 5, 177 - 254, pls. 1 - 3. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 16401862] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9422
  • Swinhoe, C. (1884) On Lepidoptera collected at Kurrachee. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1884, 503 - 529, pls. 47 - 48. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 30826883] https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1884. tb 02862. x
  • Rothschild, W. (1915 a) On the Lepidoptera collected in 1913 - 1914 by Herr Geyr von Schweppenburg on a journey to the Hoggar Mountains (Sahara). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 16 (94 & 95), 247 - 258 & 392 - 402. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 16003877] https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931508693730
  • Snellen, P. C. T. (1872) Bijdrage tot de vlinder-fauna van Neder-Guinea, zuidwestelijk gedeelte van Afrika. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 15, 1 - 110, pls. 1 - 8. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 10839081]
  • 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
  • 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)
  • Pinhey, E. C. G. (1975) Moths of southern Africa. Tafelberg, Cape Town, 273 pp., pls. 1 - 63.