Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
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Ozarba corniculans

  • 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

Ozarba corniculans (Wallengren, 1860)

COMMON NAME(S): Angle Line Ozarba.

SYNONYM(S): Erastria figurata Walker, 1865c.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Petauke, in East Luangwa district, NE Rhodesia [now N.E. Zambia], Eastern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include an unnamed species in the family Labiatae (African Moths 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.

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 pages 404-405, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Wallengren
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Ozarba
Species
corniculans
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ozarba corniculans (Wallengren, 1860) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Wallengren, H. D. J. (1860) Lepidopterologische Mittheilungen. Wiener entomologische Monatschrift, 4 (2 & 6), 33 - 46 & 161 - 176. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31290301]
  • Walker, F. (1865 c) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXXIII. Supplement Part 3. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv, 707 - 1120. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 38917760]
  • African Moths (2019) Not available anymore from https: // africanmoths. com / (accessed 23 November 2019)
  • Catalogue of Life (2017) Available from: http: // www. catalogueoflife. org / col / details / species / id / 4144 eafa 8 b 576 f 76 f 63 c 2639 d 92 a 8852 (accessed 11 November 2017)
  • 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)
  • Pinhey, E. C. G. (1975) Moths of southern Africa. Tafelberg, Cape Town, 273 pp., pls. 1 - 63.