Ophiusa mejanesi ( Guenée, 1852c )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 347

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-C514-FE83-62F6-FC18FC369F42

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Ophiusa mejanesi ( Guenée, 1852c )
status

 

Ophiusa mejanesi ( Guenée, 1852c) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Variable drab. SYNONYM(S): Ophisma expedita Walker, 1858c ; Ophiodes tettensis Hopffer, 1857 ; Ophiodes wahlbergi Wallengren, 1856 . IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia View in CoL , Oman, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: East Luangwa district, Eastern Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include two Combretaceae View in CoL , namely Terminalia anogeissiana Gere & Boatwr. View in CoL and Combretum indicum View in CoL (L.) DeFilipps and one yet to be identified Myrtaceae View in CoL species, Eucalyptus sp. ( African Moths 2019). SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Ophiusa

Loc

Ophiusa mejanesi ( Guenée, 1852c )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De 2023
2023
Loc

Ophisma expedita

Walker 1858
1858
Loc

Ophiodes tettensis

Hopffer 1857
1857
Loc

Ophiodes wahlbergi

Wallengren 1856
1856
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