Marwitzia dichocrocis ( Hampson, 1913a )
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C425-FFB5-62F6-F88FFDAD9BFD |
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Plazi |
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Marwitzia dichocrocis ( Hampson, 1913a ) |
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Marwitzia dichocrocis ( Hampson, 1913a) View in CoL
COMMON NAME (S): Yellow Cribbage.
SYNONYM(S): Dichocrocis polystidzalis Hampson, 1918d .
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval food plants include a yet to be identified Poaceae species i.e. Sorghum sp. The African Moths (2019) webpage also lists a yet to be identified Ricinus sp. (Euphorbiaceae) and a Sorghum sp. (Poaceae) as larval foodplants for the taxon. No specific host plants or larval foodplants have been identified for the taxon in Zambia.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.
Genus Nausinoe H̡bner, 1825
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