Diastema tigris Guenée, 1852b
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C5CB-FE5F-62F6-F9EBFD859AD6 |
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Plazi |
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Diastema tigris Guenée, 1852b |
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Diastema tigris Guenée, 1852b View in CoL
COMMON NAME(S): The lantana moth or lantana control moth.
SYNONYM(S): Nipista lineata Walker, 1858a
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to Florida and Texas in the United States of America, but has been introduced in Australia, Fiji, Ghana, Hawaii, Mauritius, Micronesia, St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): The known larval foodplant is, Lantana camara L. Unknown.
SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Wikipedia.org. 2023.
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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Diastema tigris Guenée, 1852b
| Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De 2023 |
Diparopsis
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