Aristaea onychota ( Meyrick, 1908b )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 30

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C453-FFC4-62F6-FF6CFDB198A2

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scientific name

Aristaea onychota ( Meyrick, 1908b )
status

 

Aristaea onychota ( Meyrick, 1908b) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Gracillariine leaf-miner.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Nigeria, Réunion, S„o Tomé and Príncipe, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants for the taxon in South Africa are two Verbenaceae species Lantana rugosa Thunb. and Lippia asperifolia Rchb. Elsewhere in Africa the Verbenaceae species Lantana camara L. and Lippia javanica (Burm.f.) Spreng. have been indicated as host plants where these plant species and the taxon exist. No host plant for the taxon has been indicated for Zambia but Lantana camara exists in the country and hence it could be the host plant or one of the host plants for the taxon in the country.

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Wikipedia.org 2023.

Genus Callicercops Vári, 1961 View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Gracillariidae

Genus

Aristaea

Family

Name

Loc

Aristaea onychota ( Meyrick, 1908b )

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

Callicercops Vári, 1961

Vari 1961
1961
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