Alpenus nigropunctata ( Bethune-Baker, 1908 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 282-283

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C557-FEC3-62F6-F90CFDF09B7D

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scientific name

Alpenus nigropunctata ( Bethune-Baker, 1908 )
status

 

Alpenus nigropunctata ( Bethune-Baker, 1908) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Tiger Moth.

SYNONYM(S): Spilosoma jacsoni Hampson, 1920b ; Spilosoma cincticorpus Hampson, 1920b ; Spilosoma oligosticta Hampson, 1920b ; Acantharctia antemediata Rothschild, 1933 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include one Euphorbiaceae species (i.e. Manihot esculenta Crantz [Commonly called cassava]) and a yet to be identified Malvaceae species ( Gossypium sp. ) ( African Moths 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Watson 1989.

Genus Alytarchia Wallengren, 1863 View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Alpenus

Loc

Alpenus nigropunctata ( Bethune-Baker, 1908 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De 2023
2023
Loc

Alytarchia

Wallengren 1863
1863
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