Omphax plantaria Guenée, 1857a

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 241

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-C4BE-FF29-62F6-FA64FD5F9D76

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scientific name

Omphax plantaria Guenée, 1857a
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Omphax plantaria Guenée, 1857a View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Smooth Emerald.

SYNONYM(S): Agraptochlora marginata Warren, 1894 ; Agraptochlora subaspersa Warren, 1894 ; Agraptochlora rubriplaga Warren, 1897a ; Pycnodontia apicata Warren, 1901b .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

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

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Alala plateau, near Mkushi, in Central Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include two Rubiaceae species namely Vangueria madagascariensis J.F.Gmel. and V. infausta Burch. ( African Moths 2019) .

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Geometridae

Genus

Omphax

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