Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Typhonoya longipennis

  • 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

Typhonoya longipennis (Hering, 1941)

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: Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mumbwa, in Central Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Prozorov 2011.

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 135-136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hering
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Lasiocampidae
Genus
Typhonoya
Species
longipennis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Typhonoya longipennis (Hering, 1941) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Hering, E. M. (1941) Neue Heteroceren aus dem Congo-Gebiet. Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines, 35 (1), 72 - 84, pl. 9.
  • 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)
  • Prozorov, A. M. (2011) Typhonia gen. nov. and Weberolegra gen. nov. - two new genera for African Gastropacha Ochsenheier, 1810 (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten, 67, 97 - 106. [https: // www. zobodat. at / pdf / Neue-Entomologische-Nachrichten _ 67 _ 0097 - 0106. pdf]