Leptoclanis pulchra Rothschild & Jordan, 1903

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 192-193

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-C4F1-FF19-62F6-F928FDDA9AD6

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scientific name

Leptoclanis pulchra Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
status

 

Leptoclanis pulchra Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 View in CoL *

COMMON NAME (S): Beautiful Hawkmoth or Beautiful Hawk.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

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

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Luangwa bridge, between Lusaka and Eastern Provinces ; Abercorn [now Mbala], in Northern Province ; Nyika plateau, in Muchinga Province ; South Luangwa national Park **, in Eastern Province .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: two Fabaceae species ( Eriosema engerlanum Harms and another Eriosema sp. ) and one Moraceaespecies ( Morus sp. ) ( Pinhey 1975).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975; Rothschild & Jordan 1903.

Genus Leucophlebia Westwood, 1847 View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Sphingidae

Genus

Leptoclanis

Family

Name

Loc

Leptoclanis pulchra Rothschild & Jordan, 1903

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

Leucophlebia

Westwood 1847
1847
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