Euclasta varii Popescu-Gorj & Constantinescu, 1973

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 95-96

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6

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scientific name

Euclasta varii Popescu-Gorj & Constantinescu, 1973
status

 

Euclasta varii Popescu-Gorj & Constantinescu, 1973 View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Grass moth or Crambid Snout Moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya, Malawi, Malta, Mozambique, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Chongwe, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval host plants include Periploca laevigata Aiton (Apocynaceae) .

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Popescu-Gorj & Constantinescu 1973.

De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2022) Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication. Available from: https: // www. afromoths. net / (accessed 20 June 2023)

Popescu-Gorj, A. & Constantinescu, A. (1973) New African species of Euclasta (Lepidoptera, Pyraustinae). Revue roumaine de Biologie, Serie de Zoologie, 18 (6), 393 - 401.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Crambidae

Genus

Euclasta