Gonimbrasia hecate Rougeot, 1955
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C4D0-FF47-62F6-FDA8FAEB9952 |
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Plazi |
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Gonimbrasia hecate Rougeot, 1955 |
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Gonimbrasia hecate Rougeot, 1955 View in CoL *
COMMON NAME (S): Saturniid or Edible caterpillar (called, Finakibobo, in the Bemba language in Zambia).
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mansa, in Luapula Province and; Kasama, in Northern Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include Annona , Bauhinia, Berlina , Combretum , Terminalia .
SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins, 2022; Malaisse 1997; University of Zambia Student Entomological Collections 1979–2004.
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