Cortyta canescens Walker, 1858b
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C501-FE89-62F6-F83CFDEE9BBD |
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Plazi |
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Cortyta canescens Walker, 1858b |
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Cortyta canescens Walker, 1858b View in CoL
COMMON NAME (S): Wavy Shades.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia , Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants includes Vachellia xanthophloea (Benth.) P.J.H.Hurter (Fabaceae) in Kenya ( Agassiz & Harper
2009). The African Moths (2019) webpage gives a complete name of this taxon as Vachellia (Acacia)
xanthophloea (Benth.) P.J.H.Hurter View in CoL and indicated that it is a larval foodplant of the taxon. SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022.
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Cortyta canescens Walker, 1858b
| Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De 2023 |
Crypsotidia
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