Alytarchia amanda ( Boisduval, 1847 )
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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15197542 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C554-FEC3-62F6-FEF4FBC89966 |
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Plazi |
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Alytarchia amanda ( Boisduval, 1847 ) |
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Alytarchia amanda ( Boisduval, 1847) *
COMMON NAME(S): Cheetah or Tiger Moth.
SYNONYM(S): Deiopeia cingulifera Walker, 1854b ; Deiopeia ocellina Walker, 1854b ; Xanthesthes albicincta Rambur, 1866 ; Deiopeia serrata Mabille, 1879b .
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Réunion, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Choma and Livingstone, in Southern Province; Chingola, in Copperbelt Province; Lusaka ** and Kafue, in Lusaka Province; Mumbwa, in Central Province
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: one Fabaceae species ( Crotalaria uncinella Lam. ) in the Réunion ( Martiré & Rochat 2008); the African Moths (2019) webpage adds another Fabaceae species namely, Crotalaria lanceolata E.Mey. , as a larval foodplant of the taxon.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; Martiré & Rochat 2008.
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