Chiasmia turbulentata ( Guenée, 1857b )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 214

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C49B-FF0C-62F6-FDF0FBAF991A

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Chiasmia turbulentata ( Guenée, 1857b )
status

 

Chiasmia turbulentata ( Guenée, 1857b) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Geometer moth.

SYNONYM(S): Aspilates exumbrata Walker 1863a ; Osteodes eritreensis ( Prout, 1915) .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia , Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kabwe, in Central Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi & Galasso (Fabaceae) is a plant host of the taxon in South Africa (Kŗger 2001). No host plant is yet associated with the taxon in Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; Kŗger 2001.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Geometridae

Genus

Chiasmia

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