Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1

Gonimbrasia anna subsp. anna

  • 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

Gonimbrasia anna anna (Maassen, 1885)

COMMON NAME(S): Twin Line Emperor.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kafue, in Lusaka Province; Kopa, in Muchinga Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include one Arecaceae species (Borassus aethiopum Mart.) in the Democratic Republic of Congo and another (Hyphaene petersiana Klotzsch ex Mart.) in an unnamed country elsewhere in Africa. In addition to this, the African Moths (2019) website lists thre other Arecaceae species namely, Hyphaene coriacea Gaertn., H. crinita Gaertn. and Hyphaene thebaica (L.) Mart., as larval foodplants of the taxon.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1972b; Thiry 1980.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Maassen
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Saturniidae
Genus
Gonimbrasia
Species
anna
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Taxonomic concept label
Gonimbrasia anna subsp. anna (Maassen, 1885) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • 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)
  • Pinhey, E. C. G. (1972 b) Emperor moths of South and South-Central Africa. C. Struik (PTY) Ltd., Cape Town, 150 pp.
  • Thiry, J. (1980) Observations sur les chenilles de quelques Saturnidae [sic] du Shaba (Zaire). Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines, 94 (2), 327 - 332.