Rufoclanis numosae ( Wallengren, 1860 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 199

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-C488-FF1F-62F6-FF24FCC09BB7

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Rufoclanis numosae ( Wallengren, 1860 )
status

 

Rufoclanis numosae ( Wallengren, 1860) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Wavy Polyptychus Hawkmoth or Wavy Polyptychus .

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia , Republic of Congo, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mwinilunga, in Northwestern Province; Luangwa bridge, between Lusaka and Eastern Provinces .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include three Malvaceae species ( Grewia damine Gaertn. , G. flavescens Juss. and G. occidentalis L.) ( African Moths 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; D’Abrera 1987; De Prins & De Prins 2022.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Sphingidae

Genus

Rufoclanis

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