Oraesia triobliqua, Saalmuller, 1880

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 323

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-C50C-FE9B-62F6-FECFFD5F98D2

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Plazi

scientific name

Oraesia triobliqua
status

 

Oraesia triobliqua View in CoL (Saalm̡ller, 1880)

COMMON NAME (S): Fruit-piercing Moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Two yet to be identified Menispermaceae species namely, Cissampelos sp. and Cocculus sp. are the larval foodplants of the taxon ( African Moths, 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Oraesia

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