Sarimarais bicolor ( Distant, 1899b )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 265

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

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C546-FED1-62F6-FE3BFDF099E9

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scientific name

Sarimarais bicolor ( Distant, 1899b )
status

 

Sarimarais bicolor ( Distant, 1899b) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Bicoloured Prominent. SYNONYM(S): Osica verulama Bethune-Baker, 1908 ; Sarimarais pinheyi Kiriakoff, 1962a View in CoL .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia , South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): The Anacardiaceae species; Searsia glauca (Thunb.) Moffett , Searsia sp. and S. dentata (Thunb.) F.A.Barkley are reported to be host plants of the taxon in South Africa ( Schintlmeister & Witt 2015;

Taylor 1949). In additioin to these plant species, the African Moths (2019) website has included the species Searsia lancea (L.f.) F.A.Barkley, S. pyroides (Burch.) Moffett and S. rehmanniana (Engl.)

Moffett as larval foodplants of the taxon. No host plants have been associated with the taxon Zambia so far.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Schintlmeister & Witt 2015; Taylor 1949.

Genus Scalmicauda Holland, 1893a

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Notodontidae

Genus

Sarimarais

Loc

Sarimarais bicolor ( Distant, 1899b )

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

Sarimarais pinheyi

Kiriakoff 1962
1962
Loc

Osica verulama

Bethune-Baker 1908
1908
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