Ustjuzhania lineata
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
Ustjuzhania lineata (Walker, 1855a)
COMMON NAME(S): Veined Ermine.
SYNONYM(S): Aloa simplex Walker, 1855a; Saenura alba Wallengren, 1860; Spilarctia puella Druce, 1898.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province; Chipata and Petauke, in Eastern Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): A Passifloraceae species called Passiflora quadrangularis L. is a host plant of the taxon in South Africa (Fawcett 1901), while Pinhey (1975) reported a yet to be identified Asteraceae species (i.e. Tagetes sp.) as a host plant in unnamed African country or countries. The following are reported as larval foodplants of the taxon: one Amaryllidaceae species (Hippeastrum sp.), five Asteraceae species (Aster sp., Cosmos sp., Zinnia sp., Tagetes minuta L. and T. erecta L.), one Colchicaceae species (Gloriosa superba L. [Climbing lily, creeping lily, tiger claw, fire lily or gloriosa lily,.]), one Moraceae species (Morus sp.), one Nyctaginaceae species (Boerhavia sp.) and two species of passiom plant, passion flowers or passion vines namely, Passiflora edulis Sims and P. quadrangularis L. (African Moths 2019).
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Fawcett 1901; Pinhey 1975; Rothschild 1910a.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Ustjuzhania
- Species
- lineata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ustjuzhania lineata (Walker, 1855) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Walker, F. (1855 a) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part III. Lepidoptera Heterocera. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv + 583 - 775. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 39418603]
- Wallengren, H. D. J. (1860) Lepidopterologische Mittheilungen. Wiener entomologische Monatschrift, 4 (2 & 6), 33 - 46 & 161 - 176. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31290301]
- Druce, H. (1898) Descriptions of some new species of Heterocera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7, 1 (3), 207 - 215. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 19365410] https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939808677955
- Fawcett, J. M. (1901) Notes on the transformations of some South-African Lepidoptera. Transactions of the zoological Society of London, 15 (6), 291 - 322, pls. 46 - 49. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 32170330] https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1901. tb 00024. x
- 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)
- Rothschild, W. (1910 a) Catalogue of the Arctianae in the Tring Museum, with notes and descriptions of new species. Novitates Zoologicae, 17, 1 - 85 + 113 - 171. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 3108534] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 13688