Diastema tigris Guenée, 1852b
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C5CB-FE5F-62F6-F9EBFD859AD6 |
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Plazi |
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Diastema tigris Guenée, 1852b |
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Diastema tigris Guenée, 1852b View in CoL
COMMON NAME (S): The lantana moth or lantana control moth.
SYNONYM(S): Nipista lineata Walker, 1858a
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to Florida and Texas in the United States of America, but has been introduced in Australia, Fiji, Ghana, Hawaii, Mauritius, Micronesia, St. Helena , Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): The known larval foodplant is, Lantana camara L. Unknown.
SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Wikipedia.org. 2023.
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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Diastema tigris Guenée, 1852b
| Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De 2023 |
Diparopsis
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