Eutelia polychorda Hampson, 1902

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 379

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C534-FEA3-62F6-FDF0FBB399DA

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scientific name

Eutelia polychorda Hampson, 1902
status

 

Eutelia polychorda Hampson, 1902 View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Varied Turntail

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia , Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Pinhey (1975) reports yet to be identified Caesalpiniaceae specles (i.e. Brachystegia sp. ) and Fabaceae species (i.e. Baikiaea sp. ) as host plants of the taxon, while the African Moths (2019) webpage additionally names Brachystegia spiciformis Benth. (Fabaceae) and Citrus sp. (Rutaceae) , as larval foodplants of the taxon.

SOURCES: African moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; Pinhey 1975.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Euteliidae

Genus

Eutelia

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