Basquiniana cana ( Aurivillius, 1893 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 147

publication ID

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

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Basquiniana cana ( Aurivillius, 1893 )
status

 

Basquiniana cana ( Aurivillius, 1893)

COMMON NAME (S): Saturniid. SYNONYM(S): Basquiniana junodi (Obertḩr, 1910a). IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Republic of Congo,

South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S):Larval foodplants include one Myrtaceae species, Syzygium owariense (P.Beauv.) Benth. , in the Democratic

Republic of Congo and another, S. guineense (Willd.) DC. , in Angola. No host plant of the taxon has been named for Zambia. SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Lautenschläger et al. 2017; Pinhey 1972b; Rougeot 1962.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Saturniidae

Genus

Basquiniana

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