Pseudometa andersoni Tams, 1925
FAMILY | Lasiocampidae |
SUBFAMILY | Lasiocampinae |
GENUS | Pseudometa |
SPECIES | andersoni |
AUTHOR | Tams, 1925 |
ORIGINAL COMBINATION | Pseudometa andersoni, sp. n. |
TYPE LOCALITY | Kenya Colony, leg. T. J. Anderson. |
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES | / |
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) | Holotype ♂, BMNH; Allotype ♀, BMNH; Paratypes 1♀, BMNH. |
STATUS | Species |
PUBLICATION | Tams W. H. T. 1925d. African Lasiocampidae: notes and new species. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9) 16(95):552-561. |
PAGINATION | 552-554 |
Species Distribution
COUNTRY | PROVINCE/STATE | PUBLICATION | PAGE |
Kenya | Tams W. H. T. 1925d. African Lasiocampidae: notes and new species. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9) 16(95):552-561. | 553 | |
Uganda | Joannou J. G. & Kühne L. 2008. Lasiocampidae. - In: Kühne, L. (Ed.) Butterflies and moth diversity of the Kakamega forest (Kenya). - — :125-134. | 131 |
Host Plants
FAMILY | SPECIES | COUNTRY | PUBLICATION | PAGE |
Fabaceae | Acacia mollissima | Kenya | Gardner J. C. M. 1957. An annotated list of East African forest insects. - — :1-47. | 35 |
Fabaceae | Acacia mearnsii | East Africa | Sevastopulo D. G. 1976. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). - Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society 35(311):94-100; (313) 177-195. | 95 |