Achaea klugii ( Boisduval, 1833 )
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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-C506-FE91-62F6-FA7CFC549D0F |
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Plazi |
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Achaea klugii ( Boisduval, 1833 ) |
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Achaea klugii ( Boisduval, 1833)
COMMON NAME (S): Orange wing.
SYNONYM(S): Ophisma croceipennis Walker, 1858c ; Ophisma rivularis Butler, 1875a ; Ophisma varians Mabille, 1898 ; Heliophisma clugi Hampson, 1913a .
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republlic of Congo, Eswatini, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants of the taxon include one Smilacaceae species namely, Smilax anceps Willd.
The wasp species, Enicospilus betanimenus (Saussure) (Ichneumonidae) is reported to be a parasitoid of the taxon.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Rousse & Villemant, 2012.
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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