Chiasmia brongusaria
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
Chiasmia brongusaria (Walker, 1860a)
COMMON NAME(S): Variable peacock.
SYNONYM(S): Tephrina incessaria Walker, 1861a; Tephrina exsecutaria Walker, 1861b; Phasiane miliaria Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875; Tephrinopsis sabulifera Warren, 1899b; Semiothisa uvidaria Swinhoe, 1904; Tephrina oleochroa Hampson, 1909c.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Three Fabaceae species namely, Acacia hirtella E.Mey., Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi & Galasso and A. sieberiana DC. are host plants of the taxon in South Africa (Platt 1921; Scoble 1999; Taylor 1949), while A. xanthophloea Benth. another Fabaceae species is its host in Kenya (Agassiz & Harper 2009). No specific host plants have been reported for the taxon in Zambia, while the African Moths (2019) webpage lists the following three Fabaceae species as larval foodplants of the taxon; Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi & Galasso, A. sieberiana DC and A. xanthophloea Benth.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Agassiz & Harper 2009; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; Platt 1921; Scoble 1999; Taylor 1949.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Geometridae
- Genus
- Chiasmia
- Species
- brongusaria
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chiasmia brongusaria (Walker, 1860) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Walker, F. (1860 a) List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XX. Geometrites. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, iv + 276 pp. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 38886425]
- Walker, F. (1861 a) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXII. Geometrites (continued). The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv + 499 - 755. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 39713449]
- Walker, F. (1861 b) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXIII. Geometrites (continued). The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv + 757 - 1020. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 39713667]
- Kr ΒΈ ger, M. (2013) Revision of Acrasia Rogenhofer, 1875 and description of Panhyperochia gen. nov., a new genus of putative nacophorine geometrids from South Africa (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae). Annals of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, 3, 99 - 152.
- Warren, W. (1899 b) New Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, and Geometridae from the Aethiopian region. Novitates Zoologicae, 6 (3), 288 - 312. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 3258751]
- Swinhoe, C. (1904) On the Geometridae of tropical Africa in the National Collection. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1904 (3), 497 - 590. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 14684698] https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1904. tb 02755. x
- Hampson, G. F. (1909 c) Ruwenzori Expedition Reports. 11. Lepidoptera Heterocera. Transactions of the zoological Society of London, 19 (2), 103 - 140, pl. 4. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31647281] https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1909. tb 08563. x
- Platt, E. E. (1921) Food plants of South African butterflies and moths. South African Journal of Natural History, 3 (1), 65 - 138. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 7072852]
- Scoble, M. J. (1999) n. k. In: Geometrid moths of the world. A catalogue (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). 2 Vols. CSIRO Publishing, Australia and Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. i - xxv + 1 - 482 & 483 - 1016 + 1 - 129 (index). https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 9789004542006 _ 005
- Taylor, J. S. (1949) Notes on Lepidoptera in the Eastern Cape Province. Part I. Journal of the entomological Society of Southern Africa, 12, 78 - 95, 2 pls.
- Agassiz, D. J. L. & Harper, D. M. (2009) The Macrolepidoptera fauna of Acacia in the KenyanRift Valley (Part 1). Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 19 (1), 4 - 8.
- 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