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Victoria fuscithorax Warren 1905
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
Victoria fuscithorax Warren, 1905c
COMMON NAME(S): Victoria emerald.
SYNONYM(S): Victoria mirabilis Warren, 1911.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province; Livingstone, in Southern Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include three Loranthaceae species namely, Plicosepalus curviflorus Tiegh., Agelanthus natalitius (Meisn.) Polhill & Wiens and Oncocalyx quinquenervius (Hochst.) Wiens & Polhill.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1; 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 page 244, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Warren
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Geometridae
- Genus
- Victoria
- Species
- fuscithorax
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Victoria fuscithorax Warren, 1905 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Warren, W. (1905 c) New African Thyrididae, Uraniidae, and Geometridae. Novitates Zoologicae, 12, 380 - 409. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 3479130] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 24265
- Warren, W. (1911) Description of some new Geometridae and Pyralidae from South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum, 10 (1), 19 - 30. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 1554422] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 9310
- 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)
- Pinhey, E. C. G. (1975) Moths of southern Africa. Tafelberg, Cape Town, 273 pp., pls. 1 - 63.