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Cimola opalina Walker 1855
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
Cimola opalina Walker, 1855b
COMMON NAME(S): Opal Moth.
SYNONYM(S): Anomoeotes thymiathis Druce, 1883.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Livingstone, in Southern Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
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 363, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Cimola
- Species
- opalina
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cimola opalina Walker, 1855 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Walker, F. (1855 b) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part IV. Lepidoptera Heterocera. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv + 777 - 976. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 38952567]
- Druce, H. (1883) Descriptions of new species of Heterocera. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 20, 155 - 157. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 9267821]
- 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