Colocleora proximaria ( Walker, 1860b )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 216

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-C499-FF0E-62F6-FAC4FCDA9C96

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Colocleora proximaria ( Walker, 1860b )
status

 

Colocleora proximaria ( Walker, 1860b) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Pale Dusty Brindle.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): In South and East Africa host plants of the taxon are Albizia gummifera (Gmel.) C. A. Smith., A. adianthifolia (Schum.) W. H. Wight and Acacia pubescens (Vent.) R.Br. (Fabaceae) , while in Zambia are not specified. The African Moths (2019) lists the following four Fabaceae species as larval foodplants of the taxon: Acacia mearnsii De Wild. , Acacia sassa (Willd.) Baillon ex Drake , Albizia adianthifolia (Schum.) W. H. Wight and A. gummifera (J.F.Gmel.) C.A.Sm.

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Geometridae

Genus

Colocleora

Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF