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Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
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Urota sinope

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

Urota sinope (Westwood, 1849)

COMMON NAME(S): Tailed Emperor or Edible caterpillar (“Finakisungwa” in “Bemba” language in Zambia).

SYNONYM(S): Urota flavobrunnea Stoneham, 1962.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

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

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kopa, in Muchinga Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include one Anacardiaceae species (Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra (Sond.) Kokwaro), five Fabaceae species (Erythrina abyssinica DC., E. lysistemon Hutch., E. caffra Thunb., Laburnum sp., and Robinia pseudoacacia L.) and one Myrtaceae species (Eucalyptus sp.) (African Moths, 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Malaisse, 1997.

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

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C4E3FF7462F6FE7BFBD59946

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/553187B2C4E3FF7462F6FE7BFBD59946 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316380899 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C4E3FF7462F6FE7BFBD59946.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Westwood
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Saturniidae
Genus
Urota
Species
sinope
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Urota sinope (Westwood, 1849) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Westwood, J. O. (1849) Monograph of the large African species of nocturnal Lepidoptera belonging or allied to the genus Saturnia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 17, 33 - 61, pls. vii - x. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 30572432]
  • Stoneham, H. F. (1962) A provisional check list of the African Saturnidae in the museum collections. Parts 1 - 5. Bulletin of the Stoneham Museum, 75, 3.
  • African Moths (2019) Not available anymore from https: // africanmoths. com / (accessed 23 November 2019)
  • Catalogue of Life (2017) Available from: http: // www. catalogueoflife. org / col / details / species / id / 4144 eafa 8 b 576 f 76 f 63 c 2639 d 92 a 8852 (accessed 11 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)
  • Malaisse, F. (1997) Se nourrir en foret claire africaine. Approche ecologique et nutritionnele. Centre Technique de Cooperation Agricole et Rurale, Presses agronomiques de Gembloux, CTA, Gembloux, Wageningen, Pays-BasWageningen, 384 pp.