Teracotona rhodophaea ( Walker, 1865a )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 291

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

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C56C-FEFB-62F6-FC60FC369F4B

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scientific name

Teracotona rhodophaea ( Walker, 1865a )
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Teracotona rhodophaea ( Walker, 1865a) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Tiger Moth.

SYNONYM(S): Macronyx debilis Felder, 1874 ; Acantharctia irregularis Gaede, 1923 ; Teracotona pallidior Niepelt, 1937 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia , Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Livingstone, in Southern Province ; Lusaka , in Lusaka Province; Kitwe, in Copperbelt Province ; Petauke, in Eastern Province .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include a Commelina species (Commelinaceae) that is yet to be identified ( African Moths 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Teracotona

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