Published October 16, 2023
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Nyodes prasinodes
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
Nyodes prasinodes (Prout A. E., 1921b)
COMMON NAME(S): Noctuid moth or Edible caterpillar, at least in Zambia (called “Finamisilu” in “Bemba”, one of local languages in Zambia).
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluatted (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Type locality is in NW Rhodesia [now NW Zambia] or the western half of the country using an imaginary line cutting the country into two in the north-south direction/plane from Ndola city to Siavonga town (but no specific localion in the region is indicated).
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include Pteridium sp. (Dennstaedtiaceae) in Kenya but unknown in Zambia.
SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Prout 1921b.
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 410, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Genus
- Nyodes
- Species
- prasinodes
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nyodes prasinodes (E., 1921) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- 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)
- Prout, A. E. (1921 b) Notes on some Noctuidae in the Joicey collection with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9, 8 (43), 1 - 66, pls. 1 - 7. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 19332336] https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222932108632557