Basiothia charis ( Boisduval, 1847 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 175

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-C4E0-FF77-62F6-FBB0FB3C9F3A

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Basiothia charis ( Boisduval, 1847 )
status

 

Basiothia charis ( Boisduval, 1847) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Lesser Brown Striped Hawkmoth.

SYNONYM(S): Chaeriocamps celerionina Walker, 1856b .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka and Kafue, in Lusaka Province; Choma, in Southern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include one Malvaceae species ( Gossypium sp. ) and one Asteraceae species ( Vernonia sp. ) ( MacNulty 1970; African Moths 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Kopij 2006; MacNulty 1970; Pinhey 1975.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Sphingidae

Genus

Basiothia

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