Platyja vacillans (Walker, 1858)
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C50D-FE9A-62F6-FB90FD809FAD |
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Plazi |
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Platyja vacillans (Walker, 1858) |
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Platyja vacillans (Walker, 1858)
COMMON NAME (S): Fruit-piercing Moth or Erebid moth.
SYNONYM(S): Facidia nigrofusca Walker, 1865 ; Megacephalon fenestratum M̂schler, 1887; Facidia horrida Holland, 1894 ; Platyja phaeophoenica Hampson, 1905 ; Facidia sassana Strand, 1918 .
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Republic of Congo, Sao Tome & Principe, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Zilli & László 2022.
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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Platyja vacillans (Walker, 1858)
| Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De 2023 |
Plusiodonta Guenée, 1852b
| Guenee 1852 |