Basiothia aureata ( Karsch, 1891b )

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

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C4E0-FF77-62F6-FD28FCC099B2

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scientific name

Basiothia aureata ( Karsch, 1891b )
status

 

Basiothia aureata ( Karsch, 1891b) View in CoL *

COMMON NAME (S): Gold Dotted Temnora Hawkmoth.

SYNONYM(S): Lophuron brevipenne Rothschild, 1895a .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Liberia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka ** and Kafue, in Lusaka Province ; Chingola, in Copperbelt Province ; Solwezi, in Northwestern Province ; Livingstone, in Southern Province .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include one Balsaminaceae species (Impatens sp.) ( African Moths 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; D’Abrera 1987; De Prins & De Prins 2022.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Sphingidae

Genus

Basiothia

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