Salagena obsolescens Hampson, 1910b

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 50

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C47F-FFE8-62F6-FAFCFA959D2E

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Salagena obsolescens Hampson, 1910b
status

 

Salagena obsolescens Hampson, 1910b View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Tropical carpenter moth, Carpenter moth or Goat moth. SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Mozambique, Namibia , South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Livingstone, in Southern Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon in South Africa are reported to include:three Myrtaceae species, Syzygium cordatum Hochst. ex Krauss , Psidium guajava L., and a yet to be identified Eugenia sp. ; one Juglandaceae species,

Carya illinoinensis (Wangenh.) K.Koch ; two Sapindaceae species, Litchi chinensis Sonn. and Pappea capensis Eckl. & Zeyh. ; one yet to be identified Moraceae species, Ficus sp. ; two Combretaceae species,

Combretum collinum Fresen. and C. zeyheri Sond. ; two Proteaceae species, Macadamia integrifolia

Maiden & Betche and M. tetraphylla L.A.S.Johnson. The African Moths (2019) webpage lists Eugenia cordata (Sw.) DC. without specifying countries in Africa where it is found.

De Prins and De Prins (2020) name a yet to be identified Ichneumonidae species, Genaemirum sp. , as a parasitoid of this species in South Africa.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1; Pinhey 1975.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Metarbelidae

Genus

Salagena

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