Epiphora bauhiniae (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C4D7-FF40-62F6-FF24FEC99816 |
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Plazi |
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Epiphora bauhiniae (Guérin-Méneville, 1832) |
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Epiphora bauhiniae (Guérin-Méneville, 1832) View in CoL
COMMON NAME(S): Southern Atlas. SYNONYM(S): Attacus baumhiria Walker, 1855c ; Attacus faidherbia de la Rocha, 1874 View in CoL ; Epiphora damarensis Schultze, 1913 View in CoL .
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania,
Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province; Mpika, in Muchinga Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: three Rhamnaceae species ( Ziziphus sp. , Ziziphus jujuba Mill and Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Desf.) in Nigeria; two Rhamnaceae species ( Ziziphus mauritiana Lam. and Ziziphus mucronata Willd. ) in South Africa; one Rhamnaceae species ( Ziziphus mucronata Willd. ) in Zimbabwe;
one Rhamnaceae species ( Ziziphus sp. ) in Kenya ; and one Rhamnaceae species ( Ziziphus mucronata
Willd.) in Namibia. No specific host plants of the taxon have been reported for Zambia.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Aurivillius, 1905a ; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Gardner 1957; Janse 1918; Oberprieler 1995; Pinhey 1972b.
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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Epiphora bauhiniae (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)
| Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De 2023 |
Epiphora damarensis
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Attacus faidherbia
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Attacus baumhiria
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