Leona maracanda Hewitson, 1876

Cock, Matthew J. W., Congdon, Colin E. & Collins, Steve C., 2014, Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 6. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: palm feeders, Zootaxa 3831 (1), pp. 1-61 : 51-52

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3831.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2EF9A3DB-0EAA-4384-8ADA-A7D269E5904D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4921676

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6F3587EC-321C-1B7B-AB9F-59EDFE1CE68E

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Felipe

scientific name

Leona maracanda Hewitson, 1876
status

 

Leona maracanda Hewitson, 1876 View in CoL

This species is found from Côte d’Ivoire Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola (TL), DR Congo and Zambia ( Larsen 2005). The material from western Zambia, which was reared by TCEC, probably represents an undescribed subspecies ( Heath et al. 2002).

Food plant. TCEC found the food plant to be a rattan palm, Eremospatha sp. , in western Zambia, which Heath et al. (2002) refer to as a ‘rattan palm’ and Vande weghe (2010) as Arecaceae .

Life history. The ovum in Figure 51.1 View FIGURE 51 is laid on the leaflet upper surface, but we do not have enough observations to say this is consistently the case; it is domed and relatively tall compared with Zophopetes dysmephila ( Figure 4.1 View FIGURE 4 ). In the final instar ( Figure 51.3–4 View FIGURE 51 ), the dorsal surface is shining white (cuticle colouring not white waxy powder), and the spiracles are black, thus differing from the younger caterpillars ( Figures 51.2–3 View FIGURE 51 ). The head is c. 4.2 x 5mm wide x high; plain pale orange-brown throughout; the black marking on the pronotum widens laterally.

The pale brown pupa ( Figure 52 View FIGURE 52 ) has a strong, blunt frontal projection, the thoracic sutures are dark, and the abdomen has scattered dots and dark transverse lines, both of which are actually very small dark indentations, the latter arranged in rows.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Hesperiidae

Genus

Leona

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