Iambia inferalis Walker, 1863b

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 422

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C5EB-FE7C-62F6-FBF0FDCE9F8D

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Plazi

scientific name

Iambia inferalis Walker, 1863b
status

 

Iambia inferalis Walker, 1863b View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Clouded Lichen. SYNONYM(S): Bryophila velutina Felder, 1874 . IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia , South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Ndola, in Copperbelt Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Ziziphus mucronata Willd. (Rhamnaceae) is reported as the larval foodplant of the taxon in South Africa

( Taylor 1953), while, no Larval foodplants are known for Zambia though the miombo tree species Z.

mucronata Willd. View in CoL is present in the country and most likely it also hosts the taxon in the country. SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.

Genus Leucochlaena Hampson, 1906a View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Iambia

Loc

Iambia inferalis Walker, 1863b

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

Leucochlaena

Hampson 1906
1906
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