Protosteira spectabilis ( Warren, 1899a )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 246

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6
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scientific name	Protosteira spectabilis ( Warren, 1899a )
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Protosteira spectabilis ( Warren, 1899a) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Geometer moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include a yet to be identified Capparidaceae especies, Maerua sp.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.

Genus Pseudolarentia Herbulot, 1956 (in Paulian & Viette 1956)