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Temnora exilis Kernbach 1962
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 exilis Kernbach, 1962
COMMON NAME(S): Hawk moth, Sphinx moth or Hornworm.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Melichar et al. 2016.
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 pages 185-186, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Kernbach
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sphingidae
- Genus
- Temnora
- Species
- exilis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Temnora exilis Kernbach, 1962 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Kernbach, K. (1962) Zwei neue afrikanische Sphingiden-Unterarten (Lep. Sphingidae). Mitteilungen der Deutschen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 21 (4), 53 - 56. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 4820210406
- 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)
- Melichar, T., Rezac M. & Milcikova, A. (2016) Descriptions of three new taxa in the Temnora pylas (Cramer, 1779) species group (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae), with notes on several other taxa. The European Entomologist, 8 (3), 105 - 131.