Gonometa robusta (Aurivillius, 1909)

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 125-126

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Gonometa robusta (Aurivillius, 1909)
status

 

Gonometa robusta (Aurivillius, 1909) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Msasa moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kaoma, in Western Province ; Petauke, in Eastern Province; Kafue in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include the Fabaceae species commonly called Zebrawood or Msasa i.e., Brachystegia spiciformis Benth. ( African Moths 2019) .

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

Genus Grammodora Aurivillius, 1927

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Lasiocampidae

Genus

Gonometa

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