Balacra rattrayi (Rothschild, 1910)

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FAMILY Erebidae
SUBFAMILY Arctiinae
GENUS Balacra
SPECIES rattrayi
AUTHOR(Rothschild, 1910)
ORIGINAL COMBINATIONMetapiconoma rattrayi sp. nov.
TYPE LOCALITYUganda, Entebbe, ix.1901-xi.1902, leg. Rattray.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES /
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) Syntypes 6♂, BMNH.
STATUS Species
PUBLICATION Rothschild W. 1910c. Descriptions of new Syntomidae. - Novitates Zoologicae 17(3):429-445.
PAGINATION 444

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Species Distribution

COUNTRY PROVINCE/STATE PUBLICATION PAGE
Burundi   Kiriakoff S. G. 1973a. Neue oder wenig bekannte Thyretidae (Lepidoptera Notodontoidea). - Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft 63:49-66, pl. 5. 50
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the   Kiriakoff S. G. 1954e. Explorations du Parc National de l'Upemba. Lepidoptera Heterocera. - Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo belge 26:1-69, pls 1-7. 29
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Katanga Pinhey E. C. G. 1962a. New or little known Lepidoptera from central Africa. - Occasional Papers of the Natural History Museum in Southern Rhodesia 3(26B):871-891, pls 1-2. 877
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the North Kivu Kiriakoff S. G. 1953a. Les Thyretidae du Musée Royal du Congo Belge (Lepidoptera Notodontoidea). - Annales du Musée du Congo belge, Tervuren, in-8°, Zoologie 26:1-91, pls 1-7. 61
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Orientale Kiriakoff S. G. 1953a. Les Thyretidae du Musée Royal du Congo Belge (Lepidoptera Notodontoidea). - Annales du Musée du Congo belge, Tervuren, in-8°, Zoologie 26:1-91, pls 1-7. 61
Gabon   Durante A. & Potenza L. 2015. Novitates from Gabon (Erebidae, Arctiinae, Syntomini, Thyretina). - Lambillionea 114 (2014)(3 (tome 2)):260-263. 261
Kenya   Aurivillius C. 1921b. Sammlungen der schwedischen Elgon-Expedition im Jahre 1920. 1. Lepidopteren. - Arkiv för Zoologi 14(5):1-27. 22
Rwanda   Kiriakoff S. G. 1953a. Les Thyretidae du Musée Royal du Congo Belge (Lepidoptera Notodontoidea). - Annales du Musée du Congo belge, Tervuren, in-8°, Zoologie 26:1-91, pls 1-7. 61
Uganda   Rothschild W. 1910c. Descriptions of new Syntomidae. - Novitates Zoologicae 17(3):429-445. 444

Host Plants

FAMILY SPECIES COUNTRY PUBLICATIONPAGE
Malvaceae Gossypium sp. Uganda Le Pelley R. H. 1959. Agricultural insects of East Africa: A list of East African plant feeding insects and mites, with their host plants, their parasites and predators, giving distribution by territories and references to the literature ... - — :i-x, 1-307.
Asparagaceae Albuca virens East Africa Sevastopulo D. G. 1975. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2 - moths (Heterocera). - Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society 34(309):175-184. 177 (as Ornithogalum sordida)
Musaceae Musa x paradisiaca East Africa Sevastopulo D. G. 1975. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2 - moths (Heterocera). - Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society 34(309):175-184. 177 (as Musa sapientum)
Fabaceae Canavalia ensiformis East Africa Sevastopulo D. G. 1975. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2 - moths (Heterocera). - Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society 34(309):175-184. 177

*   Pelargonium sp. in captivity (see M. Fontaine 1992: 114).