Scopula internata ( Guenée, 1857a )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 251

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-C4B4-FF23-62F6-F928FC369DD2

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scientific name

Scopula internata ( Guenée, 1857a )
status

 

Scopula internata ( Guenée, 1857a) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Geometer moth.

SYNONYM(S): Acidalia strigulifera Walker, 1861a ; Acidalia illiturata Walker, 1863a ; Acidalia pulverosaria Walker, 1863c ; Synelys pudens Warren, 1905b ; Scopula praeruptorum Prout L. B., 1920 ; Scopula limosata Fletcher, D. S. 1958 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Petauke and Mtenguleni in Mid Luangwa valley, Eastern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include a yet to be identified Begoniaceae species i.e. Begonia sp.

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Geometridae

Genus

Scopula

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