Epiphora bauhiniae
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
Epiphora bauhiniae (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
COMMON NAME(S): Southern Atlas.
SYNONYM(S): Attacus baumhiria Walker, 1855c; Attacus faidherbia de la Rocha, 1874; Epiphora damarensis Schultze, 1913.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province; Mpika, in Muchinga Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: three Rhamnaceae species (Ziziphus sp., Ziziphus jujuba Mill and Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Desf.) in Nigeria; two Rhamnaceae species (Ziziphus mauritiana Lam. and Ziziphus mucronata Willd.) in South Africa; one Rhamnaceae species (Ziziphus mucronata Willd.) in Zimbabwe; one Rhamnaceae species (Ziziphus sp.) in Kenya; and one Rhamnaceae species (Ziziphus mucronata Willd.) in Namibia. No specific host plants of the taxon have been reported for Zambia.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Aurivillius, 1905a; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Gardner 1957; Janse 1918; Oberprieler 1995; Pinhey 1972b.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Guerin-Meneville
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Saturniidae
- Genus
- Epiphora
- Species
- bauhiniae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Epiphora bauhiniae (Guerin-Meneville, 1832) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Walker, F. (1855 c) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part V. Lepidoptera Heterocera. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv + 977 - 1257. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 38952733]
- de la Rocha, M. V. (1874) Sur le devidage des cocons des Attacus. Bulletin de la societe d'Acclimatation, Series 3, 1, 618 - 640. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 34240956]
- Schultze, A. (1913) Die wichtigsten Seidenspinner Afrikas, mit besonderer Ber ¸ cksichtigung der Gesellschaftsspinner: nach dem heutigen Stande der Wissenschaft. The African Silk Corporation Ltd., London. [no pagination]
- African Moths (2019) Not available anymore from https: // africanmoths. com / (accessed 23 November 2019)
- Aurivillius, C. (1905 a) New African Lasiocampidae in the British Museum. Transactions of the entomological Society of London, 1905, 313 - 326, pl. xvi. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 14788133]
- 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)
- Gardner, J. C. M. (1957) An annotated list of East African forest insects. East African Agricultural and Forestry Organisation, Forestry Technical Note, 7, 1 - 47.
- Janse, A. J. T. (1918) Some apparently undescribed Heterocera and five species hitherto unrecorded from South Africa. Annals of the Durban Museum, 2 (2), 78 - 88. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 29185559]
- 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.