Melanocera sufferti ( Weymer, 1896 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 168-169

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-C4E9-FF71-62F6-F918FD949AD6

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scientific name

Melanocera sufferti ( Weymer, 1896 )
status

 

Melanocera sufferti ( Weymer, 1896) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Saturniid.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kopa and Mpika, in Muchinga Province ; Serenje, in Central Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include one Ochnaceae species ( Ochna sp. ) ( Pinhey 1972b).

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

Genus Micragone Walker, 1855c View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Saturniidae

Genus

Melanocera

Loc

Melanocera sufferti ( Weymer, 1896 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De 2023
2023
Loc

Micragone

Walker 1855
1855
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