Aroa discalis Walker, 1855b

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 361-362

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-C526-FEB0-62F6-F8AEFE409BFD

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scientific name

Aroa discalis Walker, 1855b
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Aroa discalis Walker, 1855b View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Banded Vapourer.

SYNONYM(S): Ornithopsyche hypoxantha Wallengren, 1863 ; Aroa ochraceata Walker, 1865b ; Aroa signata Walker, 1865b ; Euproctis xanthypopteros Wichgraf, 1921 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province; One locality in Central Zambia [Latitude, - 12.55529° South; Longitude,

30.29519° East], in Central Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include several yet to be identified grass species ( Poaceae ) and the grass species ,

Cleistachne sorghoides Benth. ( African Moths 2019) View in CoL . SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; Scan-bugs Organization 2019a.

Genus Barlowia Talbot, 1929 View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Aroa

Loc

Aroa discalis Walker, 1855b

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

Cleistachne sorghoides Benth. ( African Moths 2019 )

Benth. (African Moths 2019
2019
Loc

Barlowia

Talbot 1929
1929
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