Xenimpia erosa Warren, 1895

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 230

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-C4AB-FF3C-62F6-FF6CFA95981E

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scientific name

Xenimpia erosa Warren, 1895
status

 

Xenimpia erosa Warren, 1895 View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Ragged thorn. SYNONYM(S): Hyposidra linearis Warren, 1897b View in CoL .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Sao Tome & Principe, Sierra Leone, South Africa,

Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka in Lusaka Province; Ndola in Copperbelt Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: two Rutaceae species, Citrus reticulata Blanco and Citrus Lour. ; one Rubiaceae species, Coffea arabica L. ; one Myrtaceae species, Eucalyptus grandis W.Hill ; one Convolvulaceae species, Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. and one Euphorbiaceae species, Ricinus communis L. and other yet to be named species in the family ( African Moths 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1; Pinhey 1975.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Geometridae

Genus

Xenimpia

Loc

Xenimpia erosa Warren, 1895

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

Hyposidra linearis

Warren 1897
1897
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