Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
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Trabala lambourni Bethune-Baker 1911

  • 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

Trabala lambourni Bethune-Baker, 1911

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: Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kabwe in Central Province; Ndola and Kitwe in Copperbelt Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include Terminalia catappa L. (Combretaceae).

SOURCES; African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; 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 135, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bethune-Baker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Lasiocampidae
Genus
Trabala
Species
lambourni
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Trabala lambourni Bethune-Baker, 1911 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Bethune-Baker, G. T. (1911) Descriptions of new African Heterocera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 7 (42), 530 - 576. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 22098491] https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931108692976
  • 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)