Spialia ploetzi occidentalis de Jong, 1977
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3EB08193-954B-49BF-A989-1E73AC070E6B |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6068349 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A50287F3-FFD8-FFD6-FF0E-FE31FCBAFD01 |
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Spialia ploetzi occidentalis de Jong, 1977 |
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213. Spialia ploetzi occidentalis de Jong, 1977 View in CoL
WL: 14mm. This is a forest species, though it may also occur in savanna. The present subspecies ranges along West Africa from Guinea-Bissau to Nigeria, while the nominate subspecies is distributed from Cameroon to Congo and DRC, Uganda, western Kenya and northwestern Tanzania. The caterpillars feed on Tiliaceae .
Studied material. Cacheu: Caió, rare (JB) . Quinara: Buba ( ABRI, seen by Larsen).
Previous references. Regions: Without a precise location. Authors: Larsen (2005), Mendes et al. (2007).
Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: R; CS: I.
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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