Rufoclanis fulgurans, Rothschild & Jordan, 1903

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 198

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C48B-FF1C-62F6-F920FCDA9DCA

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Plazi

scientific name

Rufoclanis fulgurans
status

 

Rufoclanis fulgurans View in CoL ( Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)*

COMMON NAME (S): Pink Polyptychus Hawkmoth or Pink Polyptychus .

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not evaluated (NE).

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

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Livingstone, in Southern Province ; University of Zambia (Lusaka) **, in Lusaka Province ; Kacholola, in Eastern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include a Bignoniaceae species (Spathodia sp.) ( African Moths 2019).

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Sphingidae

Genus

Rufoclanis

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