Turnacoides basipuncta Gaede, 1928

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 267

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C544-FED3-62F6-FD98FCDF9923

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scientific name

Turnacoides basipuncta Gaede, 1928
status

 

Turnacoides basipuncta Gaede, 1928 View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Prominent or Notodontid moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Type Locality is Solwezi in N. Rhodesia [now Zambia], Northwestern Province .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): The Phyllanthaceae species, Pseudolachnostylis maprouneifolia Pax is the host plant of the taxon in South Africa ( Schintlmeister & Witt 2015), while no host plant of the taxon is known in Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Gaede 1928.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Notodontidae

Genus

Turnacoides

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