Metarctia flavicincta Aurivillius, 1900b

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 306

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

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scientific name

Metarctia flavicincta Aurivillius, 1900b
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Metarctia flavicincta Aurivillius, 1900b

COMMON NAME (S): Tiger Moth.

SYNONYM(S): Metarctia contrasta Bethune-Baker, 1911 ; Metarctia jacksoni Kiriakoff, 1956 ; Metarctia dracuncula Kiriakoff, 1957c ; Metarctia moira Kiriakoff, 1957a ; Metarctia subpumila Kiriakoff, 1957c .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants are grasses ( Poaceae ).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Kiriakoff 1973a, b.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Metarctia

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