Phalera imitata Druce, 1896

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 268

publication ID

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

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C545-FED2-62F6-F938FBC49DA2

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scientific name

Phalera imitata Druce, 1896
status

 

Phalera imitata Druce, 1896 View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Imitating Buff Tip.

SYNONYM(S): Phalera septentrionalis Kiriakoff, 1962c .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia , Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka , in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include unidentified grasses in South Africa ( Schintlmeister & Witt 2015) and the Fabaceae species, Rhynchosia viscosa DC. , elsewhere in Africa ( African Moths 2019) .

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975; Schintlmeister & Witt 2015.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Notodontidae

Genus

Phalera

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