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Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
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Chiromachla leuconoe

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

Chiromachla leuconoe (Hopffer, 1857)

COMMON NAME(S): White Bear, Tiger Moth. White Bear

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kafue, in Lusaka Province; Ndola and Chililabombwe, in Copperbelt Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include a yet to be identified Rubiaceae species (Coffea sp.) in Angola and a yet to be identified Asteraceae species (Senecio sp.) in unnamed African country or countries (Pinhey 1975). The African Moths (2019) webpage list the following as larval foodplants of the taxon; eight Asteraceae species (i.e. Emilia abyssinica (Sch.Bip. ex A.Rich.) C.Jeffrey, Senecio pellucidus DC., S. madagascariensis Poir., S. syringifolius O.Hoffm., Bidens pilosa L., Crassocephalum vitellinum S.Moore, Cynara sp., and Eclipta prostrata Lour.), one Plantaginaceae species (Vernonica sp.), one Moraceae (Morus sp.), one Rosaceae species (Rubus sp.) and one Rubiaceae species (Coffea sp.).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; Pinhey 1975.

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 285, 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/553187B2C552FEC562F6FD98FBB09E62

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/553187B2C552FEC562F6FD98FBB09E62 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316378825 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C552FEC562F6FD98FBB09E62.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hopffer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Chiromachla
Species
leuconoe
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Chiromachla leuconoe (Hopffer, 1857) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Hopffer, H. C. (1857) Diagnosen der von Peters aus Mossambique mitgebrachten Lepidoptera. Monatsberichte der K ˆ niglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1857, 421 - 423. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 11071445]
  • Pinhey, E. C. G. (1975) Moths of southern Africa. Tafelberg, Cape Town, 273 pp., pls. 1 - 63.
  • 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