Heniocha dyops (Maassen, 1872)

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 164

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-C4ED-FF7A-62F6-FE68FBA899F2

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Plazi

scientific name

Heniocha dyops (Maassen, 1872)
status

 

Heniocha dyops (Maassen, 1872) View in CoL * ( Fig. 24 View FIGURES 23–25 )

COMMON NAME (S): Marbled emperor. SYNONYM(S): None. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia , South Africa, Tanzania,

Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Chongwe and Kafue, in Lusaka Province; Mpika, in Muchinga Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include: three Fabaceae species ( Acacia mellifera (M.Vahl) Benth. , A. erubescens Oliv. and

A. hereroensis Engl. View in CoL ) in Namibia ( Oberprieler 1995) View in CoL and one Fabaceae View in CoL species ( A. nigrescens Oliv. View in CoL ) in

South Africa ( Oberprieler 1995). In addition to this, the African Moths (2019) website includes four other

Fabaceae View in CoL species namely, A. burkei Benth. View in CoL , A. fleckii Schinz View in CoL ; A. polyacantha Willd. View in CoL and Acacia mellifera

(M.Vahl) Benth. as larval foodplants of tbe taxon. No specific host plants of the taxon are reported for

Zambia. SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Oberprieler 1995; Pinhey 1975.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Saturniidae

Genus

Heniocha

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