Ovios capensis (Herrich-Schaffer, 1954)

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 398

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

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scientific name

Ovios capensis (Herrich-Schaffer, 1954)
status

 

Ovios capensis (Herrich-Schaffer, 1954) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Cream Cake or Sleepy Tiger.

SYNONYM(S): Ovios septentrionis Hampson, 1910d .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Nyika plateau, in Muchinga Province ; Mkushi, in Central Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include a yet to be identified Proteaceae species namely, Protea sp.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.

Genus Pseudospiris Butler, 1895b View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Ovios

Family

Name

Loc

Ovios capensis (Herrich-Schaffer, 1954)

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

Pseudospiris

Butler 1895
1895
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