Campimoptilum kuntzei ( Dewitz, 1881 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 150

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-C4DB-FF4C-62F6-FC9CFAB79E8E

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Plazi

scientific name

Campimoptilum kuntzei ( Dewitz, 1881 )
status

 

Campimoptilum kuntzei ( Dewitz, 1881) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Lunar Prince. SYNONYM(S): Lasioptila ansorgei Kirby, 1896 ; Lasioptila selene Kirby, 1896 ; Campimoptilum ochraceum Aurivillius, 1901a View in CoL .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia , South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Isoka and Kopa, in Muchinga Province ; Solwezi, in Northwestern Province ; Livingstone, in Southern Province ; Mansa, in Luapula Province .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S):Larval foodplants include:three Fabaceae species ( Acacia sieberiana DC. , Julbernardia paniculata (Benth.) Troupin and Bauhinia galpinii N.E.Br. ) and two Caesalpiniaceae species ( Brachystegia spiciformis Benth.

and B. venosa Hutch. & Burtt Davy ) in South Africa; two Fabaceae species ( Julbernardia globiflora

(Benth.) Troupin and Dichrostachys cinerea (L.) Wight & Arn.) in Zimbabwe. No host plants or larval foodplants named for Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; Oberprieler 1992, 1995; Pinhey 1972b.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Saturniidae

Genus

Campimoptilum

Loc

Campimoptilum kuntzei ( Dewitz, 1881 )

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

Campimoptilum ochraceum

Aurivillius 1901
1901
Loc

Lasioptila ansorgei

Kirby 1896
1896
Loc

Lasioptila selene

Kirby 1896
1896
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