Antheua tricolor Walker, 1855a

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 268

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-C545-FED2-62F6-FCB0FD8D9ECD

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scientific name

Antheua tricolor Walker, 1855a
status

 

Antheua tricolor Walker, 1855a View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Tricoloured Frill.

SYNONYM(S): Antheua varia Walker, 1855a .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia , Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Petauke in Eastern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include various species of grasses ( Poaceae ) including Pennisetum purpureum Schumach. , and a yet to be identified Cyperaceae species, Carex sp.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.

Genus Eutimia Wallengren, 1858 View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Notodontidae

Genus

Antheua

Loc

Antheua tricolor Walker, 1855a

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

Eutimia

Wallengren 1858
1858
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