Trimetopia aetheraria Guenée, 1857a

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-C4BB-FF2F-62F6-F83CFA959B2A
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Trimetopia aetheraria Guenée, 1857a
status

COMMON NAME (S): Blue looper.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Livingstone in the Southern Province ; Ndola and Chingola in Copperbelt Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include two yet to be identified Vitaceae species namely, Ampelopsis sp. and Vitis sp.

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

Family