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Scalmicauda auribasis Kiriakoff 1975
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
Scalmicauda auribasis Kiriakoff, 1975b
COMMON NAME(S): Prominent or Notodontid moth.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Zambia (endemic species).
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: The type locality is Zambesi [now Zambezi] Rapids in Ikelenge district, in Northwestern Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Kiriakoff 1975b.
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 265, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Kiriakoff
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Notodontidae
- Genus
- Scalmicauda
- Species
- auribasis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scalmicauda auribasis Kiriakoff, 1975 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Kiriakoff, S. G. (1975 b) New African Notodontidae XII (Lepidoptera Notodontoidea). Arnoldia Rhodesia, 7 (15), 1 - 9.
- 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)