Trotonotus bettoni Butler, 1898

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 266

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-C547-FED0-62F6-F970FCDA9DBA

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scientific name

Trotonotus bettoni Butler, 1898
status

 

Trotonotus bettoni Butler, 1898 View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Betton’s Prominent.

SYNONYM(S): Prionocentrum oneili Janse, 1920 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: East Luangwa district , in Eastern Province ; Kafue, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): One Fabaceae species ( Julbernardia globiflora (Benth.) Troupin ) and another but unidentified Fabaceae species ( Brachystegia sp. ) are reported as host plants of this taxon ( Pinhey 1975).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Notodontidae

Genus

Trotonotus

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