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Acontia niphogona
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
Acontia niphogona (Hampson, 1909c)
COMMON NAME(S): Owlet Moth, Underwing or Noctuid moth.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Alala Plateau near Mkushi, Central Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022.
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 389, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Hampson
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Genus
- Acontia
- Species
- niphogona
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acontia niphogona (Hampson, 1909) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- 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
- 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)