Schausinna clementsi (Schaus, 1897)

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FAMILY Lasiocampidae
SUBFAMILY Lasiocampinae
GENUS Schausinna
SPECIES clementsi
AUTHOR(Schaus, 1897)
ORIGINAL COMBINATIONMetanastria clementsi, sp. nov.
TYPE LOCALITYSierra Leone.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES /
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) Syntypes ♂, ♀, AMNH.
STATUS Species
PUBLICATION Schaus W. 1897. Three new species of Heterocera from Sierra Leone, Africa. - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 9:325-326.
PAGINATION 325

Species pictures

Species Distribution

COUNTRY PROVINCE/STATE PUBLICATION PAGE
Central African Republic     P. Basquin
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Katanga   N. Voaden
Côte d'Ivoire     P. Basquin
Sierra Leone   Schaus W. 1897. Three new species of Heterocera from Sierra Leone, Africa. - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 9:325-326. 325
Zambia     P. Basquin

Host Plants

FAMILY SPECIES COUNTRY PUBLICATIONPAGE
Capparidaceae Maerua hoehnelii 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
Capparidaceae Maerua hoehnelii Kenya Townsend A. L. H. 1937. Miscellaneous notes on the early stages of certain Heterocera. - Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 13 (1936)(3-4):107-131. 113

*   Description of the larva in A. L. H. Townsend (1937: 114).