Melinoessa croesaria Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C492-FF05-62F6-FAF3FDA89CDE |
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Melinoessa croesaria Herrich-Schäffer, 1855 |
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Melinoessa croesaria Herrich-Schäffer, 1855 View in CoL
COMMON NAME (S): Great orange looper.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Samfya in Luapula Province ; Kafue in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include a yet to be identified Vitaceae species (i.e. Vitis sp ).
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1; Pinhey 1975.
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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Melinoessa croesaria Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
| Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De 2023 |
Milocera
| Swinhoe 1904 |