Heraclia superba ( Butler, 1875a )
|
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-C5C5-FE52-62F6-FAE4FDF89D3A |
|
treatment provided by |
Plazi |
|
scientific name |
Heraclia superba ( Butler, 1875a ) |
| status |
|
Heraclia superba ( Butler, 1875a) View in CoL
COMMON NAME (S): Superb False Tiger. SYNONYM(S): Eusemia incongruens Butler, 1878 ; Xanthospilopteryx smithii Holland, 1897 ; Xanthospilopteryx basalifasciata Bartel, 1903b ; Xanthospilopteryx maculipes Strand, 1911a ; Xanthospilopteryx ugandana Jordan, 1913 ; Xanthopteryx tanganyicana Hampson, 1920b .
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia , Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants for the taxon include two Vitaceae species namely, Vitis vinifera L. and Cyphostemma cirrhosum (Thunb.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm. as well as, one Rubiaceae species namely, Pentas bussei (K.Krause) Kårehed & B.Bremer.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; 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.
|
Kingdom |
|
|
Phylum |
|
|
Class |
|
|
Order |
|
|
Family |
|
|
Genus |
Heraclia superba ( Butler, 1875a )
| Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De 2023 |
Xanthopteryx tanganyicana
| Hampson 1920 |
Xanthospilopteryx ugandana
| Jordan 1913 |
Xanthospilopteryx maculipes
| Strand 1911 |
Xanthospilopteryx basalifasciata
| Bartel 1903 |
Xanthospilopteryx smithii
| Holland 1897 |
Eusemia incongruens
| Butler 1878 |
Hespagarista
| Walker 1854 |