Racinoa ficicola ( Ormerod, 1889 )
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C4C2-FF55-62F6-FE94FC7398E7 |
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Racinoa ficicola ( Ormerod, 1889 ) |
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Racinoa ficicola ( Ormerod, 1889)
COMMON NAME (S): Small silk moth or Silkworm Moth. SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia , Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include six Moraceae species ( Ficus carica L., F. natalensis Hochst. , F. sur Forssk. , F. ingens (Miq.) Miq. , F. thonningii Blume and F. macrocarpa L.f.) and one Myrtaceae species ( Eucalyptus deglupta Blume ) ( African Moths 2019).
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022.
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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