Digama meridionalis Swinhoe, 1907

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FAMILY Erebidae
SUBFAMILY Aganainae
GENUS Digama
SPECIES meridionalis
AUTHORSwinhoe, 1907
ORIGINAL COMBINATIONDigama meridionalis, nov.
TYPE LOCALITY[South Africa, Gauteng], Johannesburg, leg. A. T. Cooke.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES /
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) Holotype ♂, BMNH.
STATUS Species
PUBLICATION Swinhoe C. 1907a. New eastern, Australian, and African Heterocera. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 19(109):49-56.
PAGINATION 51

Species pictures

Subspecies

NAME AUTHOR STATUS
meridionalis Swinhoe, 1907 Subspecies
thamaritica Wiltshire, 1986 Subspecies
deliae Berio, 1939 Subspecies

Species Distribution

COUNTRY PROVINCE/STATE PUBLICATION PAGE
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Katanga Kiriakoff S. G. 1954g. Hétérocères nouveaux ou peu connus du Katanga. - Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines 50(1-2):169-188, pls 1-2. 187
Eritrea   Berio E. 1939b. Contributi alla conoscenza dei lepidotteri eteroceri dell'Eritrea II. Eteroceri raccolti dal cap. Antonio Richini e famiglia nella zona di Adua. - Bollettino della Società entomologica italiana 71(8):164-165. 165 (as deliae)
Eswatini     TMSA
Ethiopia   Toulgoët H. de 1977a. Arctiidae et Nolidae. - In: Rougeot P. C., Missions entomologiques en Ethiopie 1973-1975. Fascicule 1. - Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (A)105:68-81, pl. 14. 73
Malawi   Pinhey E. C. G. 1975. Moths of southern Africa. Descriptions and colour illustrations of 1183 species. - — :i-iv, 1-273, pls 1-63. 172
Mozambique   Pinhey E. C. G. 1975. Moths of southern Africa. Descriptions and colour illustrations of 1183 species. - — :i-iv, 1-273, pls 1-63. 172
Namibia     TMSA
Oman   Wiltshire E. P. 1986. Lepidoptera of Saudi Arabia: fam. Cossidae, Sesiidae, Metarbelidae, Lasiocampidae, Sphingidae, Geometridae, Lymantriidae, Arctiidae, Nolidae, Noctuidae (Heterocera); fam. Satyridae (Rhopalocera) (part 5). - Fauna of Saudi Arabia 8:262-323. 289 (as thamaritica)
Saudi Arabia   Wiltshire E. P. 1986. Lepidoptera of Saudi Arabia: fam. Cossidae, Sesiidae, Metarbelidae, Lasiocampidae, Sphingidae, Geometridae, Lymantriidae, Arctiidae, Nolidae, Noctuidae (Heterocera); fam. Satyridae (Rhopalocera) (part 5). - Fauna of Saudi Arabia 8:262-323. 289 (as thamaritica)
South Africa Gauteng Swinhoe C. 1907a. New eastern, Australian, and African Heterocera. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 19(109):49-56. 51
South Africa Free State   TMSA
South Africa North-West   TMSA
South Africa Limpopo   TMSA
South Africa KwaZulu-Natal   TMSA
South Africa Mpumalanga   TMSA
Tanzania     NHMO
Yemen   Hacker H. H., Aulombard F., Bischof A., Bittermann J., Fibiger M. & Schreier H.-P. 2001. Lepidoptera of Yemen Arab Republic, collected during three expeditions in 1996, 1998 and 2000. - Esperiana 8:597-632. 609 (as thamaritica)
Zambia   Pinhey E. C. G. 1975. Moths of southern Africa. Descriptions and colour illustrations of 1183 species. - — :i-iv, 1-273, pls 1-63. 172
Zimbabwe   Pinhey E. C. G. 1975. Moths of southern Africa. Descriptions and colour illustrations of 1183 species. - — :i-iv, 1-273, pls 1-63. 172

Host Plants

FAMILY SPECIES COUNTRY PUBLICATIONPAGE
Apocynaceae Carissa edulis Kenya Townsend A. L. H. 1942. Further notes (No. 3) on the early stages of Heterocera bred in the Nakuru District. - Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 42(4-5):197-219. 199

*   Description of the larva in A. L. H. Townsend (1942: 199).