Ascotis selenaria (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 207-208

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C480-FF16-62F6-F9CBFE659AD6

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Ascotis selenaria
status

 

Ascotis selenaria View in CoL (Denis & Schifferm̡ller, 1775)

COMMON NAME (S): Pallid Grey.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): This taxon is polyphagous.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022.

Genus Biston Leach, 1815 View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Geometridae

Genus

Ascotis

Family

Name

Loc

Ascotis selenaria

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

Biston

Leach 1815
1815
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