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Lechriolepis nephopyropa Tams 1931
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
Lechriolepis nephopyropa Tams, 1931
COMMON NAME(S): Eggar, Snout moth (although this also refers to the Pyralidae) or Lappet moth.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Type locality is Solwezi, in Northwestern Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include Pinus patula ex Schltdl. & Cham. and P. eliottii Engelm. from the family Pinaceae and Brachystegia spiciformis Benth. from the family Caesalpiniaceae in Zimbabwe. No host plants for the taxon are reported for Zambia.
SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Tams 1931.
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 127, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Tams
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lasiocampidae
- Genus
- Lechriolepis
- Species
- nephopyropa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lechriolepis nephopyropa Tams, 1931 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Tams, W. H. T. (1931) New African Lasiocampidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 10, 7 (37), 1 - 17, pls. 1 - 2. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933108673278
- 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)