Scirpophaga subumbrosa Meyrick, 1933
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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-C42C-FFBB-62F6-FCB4FC329E07 |
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Plazi |
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Scirpophaga subumbrosa Meyrick, 1933 |
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Scirpophaga subumbrosa Meyrick, 1933 View in CoL
COMMON NAME (S): Grass moth or Crambid Snout Moth. SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Upper Luangwa Valley, in Muchinga Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): The cereal crop rice, Oryza sativa L. (Family Poaceae ) is indicated as host plant of the taxon in Nigeria and Sierra Leone ( Lewvanich 1981). The African Moths (2019) webpage indicates that rice is the larval foodplant of the taxon.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Lewvanich 1981.
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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