Metarctia lateritia (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C57F-FEE8-62F6-FA04FC369D77 |
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Metarctia lateritia (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855) |
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Metarctia lateritia (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855) View in CoL
COMMON NAME (S): Laterite matron or Tiger Moth.
SYNONYM(S): Hebena venosa Walker, 1856a .
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Petauke, East Luangwa distric in NE Rhodesia [now NE Zambia], Eastern Province ; Ndola, in Copperbelt Province; Lusaka , in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): The African Moths (2019) webpage reports that larval foodplants of the taxon include a yet to be identified Senecio sp. (Asteraceae) .
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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