Ethmia sabiella (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 33

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-C46E-FFF9-62F6-F984FCDA9D36

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Ethmia sabiella (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875 )
status

 

Ethmia sabiella (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Grass Miner Moth or Flat-bobied moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include a Boraginaceae species, Ehretia rigida and a Meliaceae species, Melia azedarach ( African Moths 2019) .

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Elachistidae

Genus

Ethmia

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