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Plusiodonta commoda Walker 1865

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

Plusiodonta commoda Walker, 1865c

COMMON NAME(S): Fruit-piercing Moth or Erebid moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sao Tome & Principe, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): In Zimbabwe, the Convolvulaceae species, Distimake quinquefolius (L.) A.R.Simıes & Staples is one of the host plants of the taxon (Pinhey, 1960). Additionally, Cissampelos sp. (Menispermaceae), Distimake quinquefolius (L.) A.R.Simıes & Staples (Convolvulaceae) and Ocimum gratissimum L. (Lamiaceae) and reported as larval foodplants for the taxon in unnamed African country or countries (African Moths 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.

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

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C50DFE9A62F6FA44FC369DF6

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/553187B2C50DFE9A62F6FA44FC369DF6 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316379256 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C50DFE9A62F6FA44FC369DF6.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Walker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Plusiodonta
Species
commoda
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Plusiodonta commoda Walker, 1865 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Walker, F. (1865 c) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXXIII. Supplement Part 3. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv, 707 - 1120. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 38917760]
  • Pinhey, E. C. G. (1960) The larvae of some moths reared by Mr. D. K. B. Wheeler at Syringa Farm, Southern Rhodesia. Part I. Occasional Papers of the natural history museum in South Rhodesia, 24 B, 489 - 508.
  • 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