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Argema mimosae

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

Argema mimosae (Boisduval, 1847) *

(Figs 18–21)

COMMON NAME(S): African Lunar Moth, African Moon Moth or Moon Moth.

SYNONYM(S): Argema elucidata Grunberg, 1910b; Argema occidentalis Gschwandner, 1923; Argema bouvieri Ghesquière, 1934).

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

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

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Victoria Falls Region and Livingstone in Southern Province; Riverside Motel (RIMO) in Kafue **, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: two Anacardiaceae species (Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra (Sond.) Kokwaro and Sclerocarya birrea (A.Rich.) Hochst. and one Euphorbiaceae species (Spirostachys africana Sond.) in South Africa. One Anacardiaceae species (Sclerocarya birrea ((A.Rich.) Hochst.) and one Euphorbiaceae species (Spirostachys africana) Sond. in Namibia; and one Burseraceae species (Commiphora mollis (Oliv.) Engl.) elsewhere in an unnamed African country. No specific host plants of the taxon have been associated with Zambia. Without listing specific host plants of the taxon for specific African countries, African Moths (2019) webpage list the following plant species as hosts of the taxon in the above African countries: two Anacardiaceae species (Sclerocarya caffra and Sclerocarya birrea), one Burseraceae species (Commiphora mollis), two Euphorbiaceae species (Spirostachys africana Sond. and Excoecaria africana (Sond.) M̧ll.Arg.), one Myrtaceae species (Eucalyptus sp.), one Juglandaceae species (Juglans regia L.), one Altingiaceae species (Liquidambar sp.) and one Anacardioideae (Malosma laurina (Nutt.) Nutt. ex Abrams).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Oberprieler 1995; Pinhey 1972b.

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

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C4C0FF5762F6FB37FB9C9D5A

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.10130450 (DOI)
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/553187B2C4C0FF5762F6FB37FB9C9D5A (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316380857 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C4C0FF5762F6FB37FB9C9D5A.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Boisduval
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Saturniidae
Genus
Argema
Species
mimosae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Argema mimosae (Boisduval, 1847) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • 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]
  • Gschwandner, R. (1923) Neue Lokalformen afrikanischer Saturniiden. Zeitschrift des Osterreichischen Entomologischen Vereins, 8 (5 - 6), 46 - 47. [http: // www. zobodat. at / pdf / ZOEV _ 8 _ 0046 - 0047. pdf]
  • Ghesquiere, J. (1934) Un Saturnide nouveau du Congo belge. Bulletin du Museum royal d'Histoire naturelle de Belgique, 10 (38), 1 - 4. [http: // biblio. naturalsciences. be / rbins-publications / bulletin-of-the-royal-belgian-natural-history-museum / 10 - 1934 / irscnb _ p 4087 _ rbins 21179 _ 10 _ bulletin- 38 - red. pdf]
  • 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)
  • Oberprieler, R. G. (1995) The Emperor Moths of Namibia. Ekogilde, Hartbeespoort, 104 pp.
  • Pinhey, E. C. G. (1972 b) Emperor moths of South and South-Central Africa. C. Struik (PTY) Ltd., Cape Town, 150 pp.