Aroa discalis Walker, 1855b

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 361-362

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-C526-FEB0-62F6-F8AEFE409BFD

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scientific name

Aroa discalis Walker, 1855b
status

 

Aroa discalis Walker, 1855b View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Banded Vapourer.

SYNONYM(S): Ornithopsyche hypoxantha Wallengren, 1863 ; Aroa ochraceata Walker, 1865b ; Aroa signata Walker, 1865b ; Euproctis xanthypopteros Wichgraf, 1921 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province; One locality in Central Zambia [Latitude, - 12.55529° South; Longitude,

30.29519° East], in Central Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include several yet to be identified grass species ( Poaceae ) and the grass species ,

Cleistachne sorghoides Benth. ( African Moths 2019) View in CoL . SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; Scan-bugs Organization 2019a.

Genus Barlowia Talbot, 1929 View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Aroa

Family

Name

Loc

Aroa discalis Walker, 1855b

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

Cleistachne sorghoides Benth. ( African Moths 2019 )

Benth. (African Moths 2019
2019
Loc

Barlowia

Talbot 1929
1929
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