Gonimbrasia anna anna (Maassen, 1885)

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 155

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

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scientific name

Gonimbrasia anna anna (Maassen, 1885)
status

 

Gonimbrasia anna anna (Maassen, 1885)

COMMON NAME (S): Twin Line Emperor. SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kafue, in Lusaka Province; Kopa, in Muchinga Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include one Arecaceae species ( Borassus aethiopum Mart. ) in the Democratic Republic of Congo and another ( Hyphaene petersiana Klotzsch ex Mart. ) in an unnamed country elsewhere in

Africa. In addition to this, the African Moths (2019) website lists thre other Arecaceae species namely,

Hyphaene coriacea Gaertn. , H. crinita Gaertn. and Hyphaene thebaica (L.) Mart., as larval foodplants of the taxon.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1972b; Thiry 1980.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Saturniidae

Genus

Gonimbrasia

Family

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