Argema kuhnei Pinhey, 1969

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 143

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-C4C0-FF57-62F6-FCAFFB899E32

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scientific name

Argema kuhnei Pinhey, 1969
status

 

Argema kuhnei Pinhey, 1969 View in CoL *

COMMON NAME (S): African Lunar Moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Type locality is Abercorn [now Mbala], in Northern Province ; also collected around River Motel ( RIMO) in Kafue**, in Lusaka Province .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants of the taxon include Monotes katangensis (De Wild.) De Wild (Dipterocarpaceae) ( African Moths, 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Bouyer 2008; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1969, 1972a.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Saturniidae

Genus

Argema

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