Decachorda rosea Aurivillius, 1898

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 153

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

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scientific name

Decachorda rosea Aurivillius, 1898
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Decachorda rosea Aurivillius, 1898 View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Saturniid.

SYNONYM(S): Decachorda aurivillii Bouvier, 1930a ; Decachorda citrinarius Stoneham, 1962 ; Decachorda flavilinia Stoneham, 1962 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mpika, Kopa and Isoka, in Muchinga Province ; Kitwe, in Copperbelt Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants includes a yet to be identified grass species i.e. Hyparrhenia sp. (Poaceae) ( Pinhey 1972b).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1972b.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Saturniidae

Genus

Decachorda

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