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Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
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Heraclia africana

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

Heraclia africana (Butler, 1875a)

COMMON NAME(S): African False Tiger.

SYNONYM(S): Eusemia meretrix Westwood, 1881a; Xanthospilopteryx fatima Kirby, 1891; Xanthospilopteryx flava Jordan, 1913.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include two species from the plant family Vitaceae namely, Cyphostemma cirrhosum (Thunb.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm. and Rhoicissus tridentata (L.f.) Wild & R.B.Drumm. (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 395, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C5C4FE5362F6FB88FC369F13

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/553187B2C5C4FE5362F6FB88FC369F13 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316380258 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C5C4FE5362F6FB88FC369F13.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Butler
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Heraclia
Species
africana
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Heraclia africana (Butler, 1875) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Butler, A. G. (1875 a) On a collection of Lepidoptera from southern Africa, with descriptions of new genera and species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 4, 16 (96), 394 - 420. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222937508681878
  • Kirby, W. F. (1891) On the genus Xanthospilopteryx, Wallengren. Transactions of the entomological Society of London, 1891 (2), 279 - 292, pl. 15. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 33777134] https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1891. tb 01651. x
  • Jordan, K. (1913) Agaristidae. In: Seitz, A., Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Vol. 15. Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 1 - 29. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 10354452]
  • 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