Ovios capensis (Herrich-Schaffer, 1954)
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Ovios capensis (Herrich-Schaffer, 1954) |
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Ovios capensis (Herrich-Schaffer, 1954) View in CoL
COMMON NAME (S): Cream Cake or Sleepy Tiger.
SYNONYM(S): Ovios septentrionis Hampson, 1910d .
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Nyika plateau, in Muchinga Province ; Mkushi, in Central Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include a yet to be identified Proteaceae species namely, Protea sp.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; 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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Ovios capensis (Herrich-Schaffer, 1954)
| Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De 2023 |
Pseudospiris
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