Achaea klugii ( Boisduval, 1833 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 329

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-C506-FE91-62F6-FA7CFC549D0F

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Plazi

scientific name

Achaea klugii ( Boisduval, 1833 )
status

 

Achaea klugii ( Boisduval, 1833)

COMMON NAME (S): Orange wing.

SYNONYM(S): Ophisma croceipennis Walker, 1858c ; Ophisma rivularis Butler, 1875a ; Ophisma varians Mabille, 1898 ; Heliophisma clugi Hampson, 1913a .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republlic of Congo, Eswatini, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants of the taxon include one Smilacaceae species namely, Smilax anceps Willd.

The wasp species, Enicospilus betanimenus (Saussure) (Ichneumonidae) is reported to be a parasitoid of the taxon.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Rousse & Villemant, 2012.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Achaea

Family

Name

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