Metarctia lateritia (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 306

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-C57F-FEE8-62F6-FA04FC369D77

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scientific name

Metarctia lateritia (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)
status

 

Metarctia lateritia (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Laterite matron or Tiger Moth.

SYNONYM(S): Hebena venosa Walker, 1856a .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Petauke, East Luangwa distric in NE Rhodesia [now NE Zambia], Eastern Province ; Ndola, in Copperbelt Province; Lusaka , in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): The African Moths (2019) webpage reports that larval foodplants of the taxon include a yet to be identified Senecio sp. (Asteraceae) .

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Metarctia

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