Scopula opicata ( Fabricius, 1798 )
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C4B5-FF25-62F6-F96EFC349ACA |
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Scopula opicata ( Fabricius, 1798 ) |
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Scopula opicata ( Fabricius, 1798) View in CoL
COMMON NAME (S): Geometer moth.
SYNONYM(S): Pigia infantularia Guenée, 1857b ; Micronia vanaria Walker, 1861b .
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, China, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, India, Madagascar, Malawi, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sunderland, Tanzania, Uganda, Timor, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mtenguleni in East Luangwa district [Altitude 2400 ft., or 731.5 m], Eastern Province .
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): According to the African Moths (2019) webpage, this is a Polyphagous taxon and its larval foodplants include, Lycopersicon sp. (Solanaceae) .
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910b.
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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