Metarctia rufescens Walker, 1855a

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 307

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-C57C-FEEB-62F6-FC1FFDF19F35

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scientific name

Metarctia rufescens Walker, 1855a
status

 

Metarctia rufescens Walker, 1855a View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Tiger Moth.

SYNONYM(S): Hexaneura maculifera Wallengren, 1860 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka , in Lusaka Province; Zambezi and Mwinilunga, in Northwestern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larvae of the taxon have been reported to feed on leaf litter, roots of yet to be identified grasses and on Tradescanthia sp. ( Commelinaceae ).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Kiriakoff 1957b.

Genus Paramelisa Aurivillius, 1906

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Metarctia

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