Epiorna abessynica ( Koch, 1865 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 69

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-C40A-FF9D-62F6-FD78FCCC9E42

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Plazi

scientific name

Epiorna abessynica ( Koch, 1865 )
status

 

Epiorna abessynica ( Koch, 1865) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Burnet moth, Forester moth or Smoky moth.

SYNONYM(S): Zygaena holoxanthina Mabille, 1892c , Neurosymploca procrioides Butler, 1893 , Epizygaena xanthosoma Jordan, 1907 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mansa, in Luapula Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include a Celastraceae species ( Maytenus ovata ) in Ethiopia. No host plants for the taxon have been reported in Zambia.

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; Sevastopulo 1975.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Zygaenidae

Genus

Epiorna

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