Gonimbrasia hecate Rougeot, 1955

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 159

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C4D0-FF47-62F6-FDA8FAEB9952

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scientific name

Gonimbrasia hecate Rougeot, 1955
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Gonimbrasia hecate Rougeot, 1955 View in CoL *

COMMON NAME (S): Saturniid or Edible caterpillar (called, Finakibobo, in the Bemba language in Zambia).

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mansa, in Luapula Province and; Kasama, in Northern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include Annona , Bauhinia, Berlina , Combretum , Terminalia .

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins, 2022; Malaisse 1997; University of Zambia Student Entomological Collections 1979–2004.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Saturniidae

Genus

Gonimbrasia

Family

Name

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