Leucostrophus alterhirundo d’Abrera, 1987

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 182

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

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Leucostrophus alterhirundo d’Abrera, 1987
status

 

Leucostrophus alterhirundo d’Abrera, 1987 View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): White Barred Hawkmoth, White Barred Hawk, Swallow Hawkmoth or Swallow Hawk.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Botswana, Cameroon, Comoros, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: East Luangwa District , in Eastern Province ; Kasama, in Northern Province ; Chirundu, Kafue and Lusaka , in Lusaka Province; Mpika, in Muchinga Province .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include two Loganiaceae species ( Strychnos henningsii Gilg , and another Strychnos sp. ) ( African Moths 2019).

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

Genus Macroglossum Scopoli, 1777

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Sphingidae

Genus

Leucostrophus

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