Euproctis aethiopica Snellen 1872
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
Euproctis aethiopica Snellen, 1872
COMMON NAME(S): Tussock moth
SYNONYM(S): Porthesia natalensis Janse 1915.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include One Rhamnaceae species (Ziziphus mucronata Willd.), one Salicaceae species (Salix sp.) and one Myrtaceae species (Psidium guajava L.) in South Africa (Prinsloo & Uys 2015; Taylor 1953) In addition to this, the African Moths (2019) webpage lists the following as larval foodplants of the taxon; two Fabaceae species (i.e. Acacia mearnsii De Wild. and Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi & Galasso), one Lamiaceae species (Volkameria glabra (E.Mey.) Mabb. & Y.W.Yuan), one Pinaceae species (Pinus patula Schltdl. & Cham.), one Cannabaceae species (Trema orientalis (L.) Blume) and one Salicaceae species (Salix babylonica L. [the Babylon willow or weeping willow]).
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Bethune-Baker 1908; De Prins & De Prins 2022.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Snellen
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Euproctis
- Species
- aethiopica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Euproctis aethiopica Snellen, 1872 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Snellen, P. C. T. (1872) Bijdrage tot de vlinder-fauna van Neder-Guinea, zuidwestelijk gedeelte van Afrika. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 15, 1 - 110, pls. 1 - 8. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 10839081]
- Janse, A. J. T. (1915) Contribution towards our knowledge of the South African Lymantriidae. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 5 (1), 1 - 67. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 50439717]
- Prinsloo, G. L. & Uys, V. M. (Eds.) (2015) Insects of cultivated plants and natural pastures in Southern Africa. Entomological Society of Southern Africa, Hatfield, xiv + 785 pp.
- Taylor, J. S. (1953) Notes on Lepidoptera in the Eastern Cape Province. Part III. Journal of the entomological Society of Southern Africa, 16 (2), 143 - 167, 4 pls.
- African Moths (2019) Not available anymore from https: // africanmoths. com / (accessed 23 November 2019)
- Bethune-Baker, G. T. (1908) Descriptions of new African Heterocera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 2 (9), 255 - 264. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 22071024] https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222930808692482
- 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)