Cecidothyris pexa guttulata Aurivillius, 1910a

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 71

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-C408-FF9E-62F6-F92DFE419AAA

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Cecidothyris pexa guttulata Aurivillius, 1910a
status

 

Cecidothyris pexa guttulata Aurivillius, 1910a View in CoL

COMMON NAME(S): Clouded Lattice.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal   GoogleMaps , Sudan   GoogleMaps , Tanzania   GoogleMaps , Zambia   GoogleMaps , Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka [Latitude, - 15.54124 S; Longitude, 28.33762 E], in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include a Combretaceae species namely, Terminalia avicennioides Guill. & Perr . According to African Moths (2019) webpage, larvae of the taxon feed and are found in in Galls on the Combretaceae species Terminalia avicennioides Guill. & Perr. , T. sericea Burch. ex DC. , and Terminalia sp. SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1; Scan-bugs Organization 2019; Whalley 1971.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Thyrididae

Genus

Cecidothyris

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