Taviodes subjecta (Walker, 1865)

Delabye, Sylvain, Sedlacek, Ondrej, Maicher, Vincent & Tropek, Robert, 2020, New records of six moth (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Lasiocampidae) species in south African countries, with comments on their distribution, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 59339-59339 : 59339

Taviodes subjecta (Walker, 1865)

Erebidae , Pangraptinae

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Taviodessubjecta (Walker, 1865); Location: continent: Africa; country: Namibia; stateProvince: Kavango East; locality: Bwabwata National Park ; verbatimElevation: 1,042 m; decimalLatitude: -18.0688; decimalLongitude: 21.6702; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: samplingProtocol: Light-trapping; eventDate: 20/11/2016; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: GRBIO URIhttp://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Taviodessubjecta (Walker, 1865); Location: continent: Africa; country: Namibia; stateProvince: Kavango East; locality: Bwabwata National Park ; verbatimElevation: 1,044 m; decimalLatitude: -18.0642; decimalLongitude: 21.6784; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: samplingProtocol: Light-trapping; eventDate: 20/11/2016; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: GRBIO URIhttp://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Taviodessubjecta (Walker, 1865); Location: continent: Africa; country: Namibia; stateProvince: Kavango East; locality: Bwabwata National Park ; verbatimElevation: 1,044 m; decimalLatitude: -18.0592; decimalLongitude: 21.6872; Identification: identifiedBy: Sylvain Delabye; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: samplingProtocol: Light-trapping; eventDate: 20/11/2016; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionID: GRBIO URIhttp://grbio.org/cool/8t1f-g2z6; institutionCode: ZMJU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

The identification of this species was based on Pinhey (1975).

Distribution

We report this species for the first time in Namibia. It was already known from several countries in the Congolian (Democratic Republic of Congo), Somalian (Kenya), Zambezian and Southern African biogeographic regions, including South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia, all bordering with Namibia ( Pinhey 1975). All three specimens were collected in the Bwabwata National Park, in the Zambezian region (Fig. 6 ).

Figures

Figure 6. Taviodes subjecta (Walker, 1865), male, Namibia, Bwabwata National Park. A. dorsal view; B. ventral view. The scale represents 1 cm.