Metajana marshalli (Aurivillius, 1909)

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 128

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

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scientific name

Metajana marshalli (Aurivillius, 1909)
status

 

Metajana marshalli (Aurivillius, 1909) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Marshall’s Lappet.

SYNONYM(S): Craspia rhypara Hering, 1928b .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Burundi, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Combretum hereroense Schinz (Combretaceae) has been reported as the host plant of the taxon in Zimbabwe but no host plant has yet been named for the taxon in Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.

Genus Mimopacha Aurivillius, 1905a

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Lasiocampidae

Genus

Metajana

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