Amerila lupia ( Druce, 1887 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 284

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-C555-FEC2-62F6-FE4CFC63989E

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scientific name

Amerila lupia ( Druce, 1887 )
status

 

Amerila lupia ( Druce, 1887) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Woolly bear moth.

SYNONYM(S): Amerila nivaria Weymer, 1892 ; Rhodogastria sanguinota Strand, 1911c .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE),

DISTRIBUTION: Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Ndola, in Copperbelt Province ; Lusaka , in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include a yet to be identified Galium sp. (Rubiaceae) ( African Moths 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Goodger & Watson 1995.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Amerila

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