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Achaea faber Holland 1894

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

Achaea faber Holland, 1894

COMMON NAME(S): Catocaline Moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Réunion, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome & Principe, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kafue, in Lusaka Province; Ndola, in Copperbelt Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S):Larval foodplants include Citrus sp. (Rutaceae), Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh. (Myrtaceae), Mangifera indica L.(Anacardiaceae), Musa paradisiaca subsp. sapientum (L.) Kuntze ex K.Schum. (Musaceae), Pelergonium sp. (Geraniaceae), Phyllanthus sp. (Phyllanthaceae) and Shirakiopsis elliptica (Hochst.) Esser (Euphorbiaceae).

The wasp species, Enicospilus betanimenus (Saussure) (Ichneumonidae) is a parasitoid of thia taxon (Rousse & Villemant 2012).

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

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C506FE9162F6FE6CFC3699BF

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/553187B2C506FE9162F6FE6CFC3699BF (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316380337 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C506FE9162F6FE6CFC3699BF.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Holland
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Achaea
Species
faber
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Achaea faber Holland, 1894 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Holland, W. J. (1894) New and undescribed genera and species of West African Noctuidae. Psyche, 7 (213), 7 - 10 + 27 - 34 + 36 + 47 - 50 + 67 - 70 + 83 - 90 + 109 - 128 + 141 - 144, pls. 1 - 5. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 11639833]
  • Rousse, P. & Villemant, C. (2012) Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species. Zootaxa, 3278 (1), 1 - 57. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3278.1.1
  • 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