Teracotona euprepia Hampson, 1900b

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 291

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-C56C-FEFB-62F6-FD98FCDA99C2

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scientific name

Teracotona euprepia Hampson, 1900b
status

 

Teracotona euprepia Hampson, 1900b View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Hampson’s Veined Tiger.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kapiri Mposhi and Mumbwa, in Central Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include a yet to be identified Solanaceae species i.e. Nicotiana sp. ( Pinhey 1975) . J usticia sp. ( Acanthaceae ), Commelina sp. (Commelinaceae) , Aster sp. (Asteraceae) , Bidens sp. (Asteraceae) , Zinnia sp. (Asteraceae) and Nicotiana tabacum L. [cultivated tobacco] ( Solanaceae ) are all larval foodplants of the taxon ( African Moths 2019).

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Teracotona

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