Racinoa ficicola (Ormerod, 1889)

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FAMILY Bombycidae
SUBFAMILY Bombycinae
GENUS Racinoa
SPECIES ficicola
AUTHOR(Ormerod, 1889)
ORIGINAL COMBINATIONTrilocha ficicola (Westw.)
TYPE LOCALITYSouth Africa, [Eastern Cape], Port Elizabeth [Gqeberha].
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES /
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) Not stated.
STATUS Species
COMMENTImplicitly transferred to Racinoa by T. Bouyer (2008c: 62).
PUBLICATION Ormerod E. A. 1889. Notes and descriptions of a few injurious farm & fruit insects of South Africa. - — :i-viii, 1-116.
PAGINATION 43-46, fig. 20 Bhl

Species pictures

Species Distribution

COUNTRY PROVINCE/STATE PUBLICATION PAGE
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Katanga   N. Voaden
Eritrea   Berio E. 1939a. Contributi alla conoscenza dei lepidotteri eteroceri dell'Eritrea I. Lista delle specie con descrizioni delle nuove entità raccolte negli anni 1934 al 1937 dal sig. Francesco Vaccaro. - Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 17(1):47-62, pls 1-2. 60
Kenya   Fletcher D. S. 1968a. Ruwenzori Expedition, 1952. - Cossidae, Metarbelidae, Psychidae, Limacodidae, Drepanidae, Uraniidae, Lasiocampidae, Eupterotidae, Bombycidae, Saturniidae & Sphingidae. - Ruwenzori Expedition 1952 1(8):325-369. 345
Mozambique   Pinhey E. C. G. 1975. Moths of southern Africa. Descriptions and colour illustrations of 1183 species. - — :i-iv, 1-273, pls 1-63. 109
Nigeria   Rothschild W. 1921b. On the Lepidoptera collected by Capt. A. Buchanan in Northern Nigeria and the Southern Sahara in 1919-1920. Geometridae. - Novitates Zoologicae 28(2):215-229. 218
Somalia   Berio E. 1938b. Spedizione zoologica del Marchese Saverio Patrizi nel Basso Giuba e nell'Oltregiuba Giugno-Agosto 1934. Lista dei lepidotteri eteroceri con note e diagnosi di eteroceri africani. - Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 58:189-203. 191
South Africa Eastern Cape Ormerod E. A. 1889. Notes and descriptions of a few injurious farm & fruit insects of South Africa. - — :i-viii, 1-116. 43
Tanzania     S. King
Uganda   Fletcher D. S. 1968a. Ruwenzori Expedition, 1952. - Cossidae, Metarbelidae, Psychidae, Limacodidae, Drepanidae, Uraniidae, Lasiocampidae, Eupterotidae, Bombycidae, Saturniidae & Sphingidae. - Ruwenzori Expedition 1952 1(8):325-369. 345
Zambia   Pinhey E. C. G. 1975. Moths of southern Africa. Descriptions and colour illustrations of 1183 species. - — :i-iv, 1-273, pls 1-63. 109
Zimbabwe   Pinhey E. C. G. 1975. Moths of southern Africa. Descriptions and colour illustrations of 1183 species. - — :i-iv, 1-273, pls 1-63. 109

Host Plants

FAMILY SPECIES COUNTRY PUBLICATIONPAGE
Moraceae Ficus sp. South Africa Ormerod E. A. 1889. Notes and descriptions of a few injurious farm & fruit insects of South Africa. - — :i-viii, 1-116. 43
Moraceae Ficus carica Kenya Townsend A. L. H. 1938. Further notes on the early stages of Heterocera bred in the Nakuru District. - Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 13(5):168-182. 172
Moraceae Ficus petersii South Africa Platt E. E. 1921. List of foodplants of some South African lepidopterous larvae. - South African Journal of Natural History 3(1):65-138. 80 (as ficicolor)

*   Description of the larva in A. H. L. Townsend (1938: 172).