Pseudometa choba ( Druce, 1899 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 131

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-C4CC-FF5B-62F6-FB68FC6D9FB3

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scientific name

Pseudometa choba ( Druce, 1899 )
status

 

Pseudometa choba ( Druce, 1899) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Eggar, Snout moth (although this also refers to the Pyralidae ) or Lappet moth.

SYNONYM(S): Pseudometa nigricans Aurivillius, 1925b ; Glocia tenebra Bethune-Baker, 1911a .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka , in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Joannou & Ķhne 2008.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Lasiocampidae

Genus

Pseudometa

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