Published October 16, 2023
| Version v1
Taxonomic treatment
Open
Temnora elegans subsp. polia Rothschild 1904
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
Temnora elegans polia Rothschild, 1904
COMMON NAME(S): Hawk moth, Sphinx moth or Hornworm.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mbala, in the Northern Province; Kafue, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include the Rubiaceae species Psychotria capensis (Eckl.) Vatke (African Moths 2019).
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.
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 185, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
Files
Files
(966 Bytes)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:ebc75fcabad585dd617e5265a8c21c10
|
966 Bytes | Download |
System files
(9.9 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:f49e6c451c785c9a327e398ebc84a9dc
|
9.9 kB | Download |
Linked records
Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Rothschild
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Genus
- Temnora
- Species
- polia
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Temnora elegans subsp. polia Rothschild, 1904 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Rothschild, W. (1904) New Sphingidae. Novitates Zoologicae, 11, 435 - 440. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 3859189] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 26840
- 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)
- Hampson, G. F. (1910 c) Zoological collections from Northern Rhodesia and adjacent territories: Lepidoptera Phalaenae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1910 (2), 388 - 510, pls. 36 - 41. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31563124] https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1910. tb 01899. x