Oaracta maculata Warren, 1897

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 223

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

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scientific name

Oaracta maculata Warren, 1897
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Oaracta maculata Warren, 1897 View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Geometer moth.

SYNONYM(S): Scardamia perobliqua Prout L. B., 1915 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include the Flacourtiaceae species, Flacourtia indica ( Scoble 1999; African Moths 2019). No specific host plant has been associated with the taxon in Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.

Genus Odontopera Stephens, 1831

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Geometridae

Genus

Oaracta

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