Temnora plagiata Walker, 1856b

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 187

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-C4F4-FF63-62F6-FA9FFD5F9C02

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Plazi

scientific name

Temnora plagiata Walker, 1856b
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Temnora plagiata Walker, 1856b View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Brown Spot Temnora Hawkmoth or Brown Spot Temnora .

SYNONYM(S): Panacra confusa Walker, 1856b ; Aspledon dicanus Boisduval, 1875 ; Lophuron maculatum Rothschild, 1894 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Abercorn [now Mbala], in Northern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include a Metteniusaceae species, namely Apodytes dimidiata E.Mey. ex Arn. ( African Moths 2019) .

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Sphingidae

Genus

Temnora

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