Pselaphelia flavivitta ( Walker, 1862c )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 169-170

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C4E6-FF70-62F6-F904FDD59B7D

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Pselaphelia flavivitta ( Walker, 1862c )
status

 

Pselaphelia flavivitta ( Walker, 1862c) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Leaf emperor.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mwinilunga, in Northwestern Province ; Mufulira and Luanshya, in Copperbelt Province; Kopa, in Muchinga Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include Meliaceae species Trichilia emetica Vahl. , and one Zingiberaceae species (Afromomum sp.) ( African Moths 2019; Pinhey 1972b).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; Pinhey 1972b.

Genus Pseudantheraea Weymer, 1892 View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Saturniidae

Genus

Pselaphelia

Loc

Pselaphelia flavivitta ( Walker, 1862c )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De 2023
2023
Loc

Pseudantheraea

Weymer 1892
1892
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