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Egybolis vaillantina

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

Egybolis vaillantina (Stoll, 1790)

COMMON NAME(S): African Peach Moth, Peach moth

SYNONYM(S): Egybolis cameroona Bethune-Baker, 1927; Egybolis dohertyi Rothschild, 1901; Celoptera formosa Blanchard, 1845; Egybolis natalii Boisduval, 1847; Egybolis vaillantiana Angas, 1849.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Victoria Falls Region, in Southern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include Deinbollia oblongifolia Radlk., Gossypium, Prunus persica (L.) Batsch 1801(Peach), Sapindus, Deinbollia borbonica Scheff., Citrus.

SOURCES: Bingham et al. 2010; 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 341, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C51AFE8D62F6FBC4FCD79FB6

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/553187B2C51AFE8D62F6FBC4FCD79FB6 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316379372 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C51AFE8D62F6FBC4FCD79FB6.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Stoll
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Egybolis
Species
vaillantina
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Egybolis vaillantina (Stoll, 1790) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Bethune-Baker, G. T. (1927) Descriptions of new Heterocera from Africa and the East. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9, 20, 321 - 334. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222932708655457
  • Blanchard, E. (1845) Histoire naturelle des insectes, leurs moeurs, leurs metamorphoses et leur classification ou traite elementaire d'entomologie. Librairie F. Savy, Paris, 524 pp., 20 pls. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 25155501]
  • Boisduval, J. B. A. (1847) Catalogue des Lepidopteres recueillis par M. Delegorgue pendant les annees 1838 - 1844 a Port Natal, au pays des Amazoulous et dans la contree de Massilicatzi. In: Delegorgue, A. (Ed.), Voyage dans l'Afrique australe 1838 - 1844. Vol. 2. A. Rene et cie., Imprimeurs-Editeurs, Paris, pp. 585 - 602. [https: // www. digitale-sammlungen. de / de / view / bsb 10466630? page = 5]
  • Angas, G. F. (1849) The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amapanda, and Amakosa tribes; also portraits of the Hottentot, Malay, and other races inhabiting South Africa. J. Hogarth, London, 50 pp. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 57675131] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 156959
  • Bingham, M. G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B. T., Ballings, P. & Hyde, M. A. (2010) Flora of Zambia: Insects. Available from: http: // www. zambiaflora. com / speciesdata / insects. php (accessed 10 November 2017)
  • 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.