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Negeta luminosa

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

Negeta luminosa (Walker, 1858d)

COMMON NAME(S): Luminous Cloud.

SYNONYM(S): Micra lacteola Mabille, 1880e; Thalpochares parectata Wallengren, 1863; Cilix tenax Saalmuller, 1884.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia. Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: two Combretaceae species, Combretum molle R.Br. ex G.Don and Terminalia ivorensis A.Chev.; one Myrtaceae species, Corymbia torelliana (F.Muell.) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson and one yet to be identified Malvaceae species, Gossypium sp. (African Moths 2019).

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 384, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C531FEA662F6FCDCFC369E8F

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/553187B2C531FEA662F6FCDCFC369E8F (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316381116 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C531FEA662F6FCDCFC369E8F.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Walker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Nolidae
Genus
Negeta
Species
luminosa
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Negeta luminosa (Walker, 1858) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Walker, F. (1858 d) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XV. Noctuidae. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv + 1521 - 1888. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 39337530]
  • Mabille, P. (1880 e) Comptes Rendus. Diagnoses Lepidopterorum Malgassicorum. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de Belgique, 23, xvi - xxvii.
  • Wallengren, H. D. J. (1863) Lepidopterologische Mittheilungen. III. Wiener entomologische Monatschrift, 7 (5), 137 - 151. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31456259]
  • 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