Metarctia rubripuncta Hampson, 1898
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C57C-FEEB-62F6-FD97FCDA991A |
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Metarctia rubripuncta Hampson, 1898 |
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Metarctia rubripuncta Hampson, 1898 View in CoL
COMMON NAME (S): Red Dot Matron.
SYNONYM(S): Metarctia chapini Holland, 1920 ; Metarctia denisae Dufrane, 1945 ; Metarctia impura Kiriakoff, 1959a ; Metarctia rosea Aurivillius, 1906 .
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kasempa and Solwezi, in Northwestern Province ; Mumbwa, in Central Province ; Mufulira, in Copperbelt Province ; Lusaka , in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. ( Convolvulaceae ).
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.
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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