Ceratophaga vastellus ( Zeller, 1852 )
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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-C455-FFC2-62F6-FC64FDB79FB9 |
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Plazi |
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Ceratophaga vastellus ( Zeller, 1852 ) |
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Ceratophaga vastellus ( Zeller, 1852) View in CoL
COMMON NAME (S): Horn Moth. SYNONYM(S): Tinea gigantella Stainton, 1860 View in CoL ; Tinea lucidella Walker, 1863c View in CoL .
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Burundi, Central African Republic, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia , Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South
Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Undefined decaying animal matter is reported as larval food of the taxon in Uganda. The African Moths (2019) webpage indicates that larval food for the taxon is dead animal material (buffaloes, cattle and antelope horn) and dried fruit. The larva, for example, bores in the horns of dead buffaloes and antelopes and feeds on the hornmass .
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Gozmány 1967a –c; Meyrick 1924b.
Genus Monopis H̡bner, 1825
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Ceratophaga vastellus ( Zeller, 1852 )
| Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De 2023 |
Tinea lucidella
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Tinea gigantella
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