Rigema ornata Walker, 1865b

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 269

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-C542-FED5-62F6-FCC0FA9B9ECA

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Plazi

scientific name

Rigema ornata Walker, 1865b
status

 

Rigema ornata Walker, 1865b

COMMON NAME (S): Prominent or Notodontid moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE)

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Togo, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Petauke, in Eastern Province ; Mkushi, in Central Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants comprise unidentified grasses and Cyperus esculentus L. ( Cyperaceae ) in South Africa ( Pinhey 1975; Schintlmeister & Witt 2015) but not specified or reported for Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; Pinhey 1975; Schintlmeister & Witt 2015.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Notodontidae

Genus

Rigema

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