Heraclia africana ( Butler, 1875a )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 395

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-C5C4-FE53-62F6-FB88FC369F13

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Heraclia africana ( Butler, 1875a )
status

 

Heraclia africana ( Butler, 1875a) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): African False Tiger. SYNONYM(S): Eusemia meretrix Westwood, 1881a ; Xanthospilopteryx fatima Kirby, 1891 ; Xanthospilopteryx flava Jordan, 1913 . IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia View in CoL , South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include two species from the plant family Vitaceae View in CoL namely, Cyphostemma cirrhosum

(Thunb.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm. and Rhoicissus tridentata View in CoL (L.f.) Wild & R.B.Drumm. ( African

Moths 2019). SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Heraclia

Loc

Heraclia africana ( Butler, 1875a )

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

Xanthospilopteryx flava

Jordan 1913
1913
Loc

Xanthospilopteryx fatima

Kirby 1891
1891
Loc

Eusemia meretrix

Westwood 1881
1881
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