Gorgopis libania (Cramer, 1781)

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FAMILY Hepialidae
SUBFAMILY  
GENUS Gorgopis
SPECIES libania
AUTHOR(Cramer, 1781)
ORIGINAL COMBINATIONPhal.[aena] Bomb.[yx] Libania
TYPE LOCALITY[South Africa, Western Cape], Kaap de Goede Hoop.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES /
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) Not stated.
STATUS Species
PUBLICATION Cramer P. 1780-1782. De uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen Asia, Africa en America, by een verzameld en beschreeven door den heer Pieter Cramer (etc.). - — 4(25-34):1-252, pls 289-396.
PAGINATION 128, 350 (index); pl. ccclvi, fig. F. Bhl

Species pictures

Synonyms

NAME AUTHOR STATUS
abbottii Holland, 1892 Synonym of species
angolensis Viette, 1956 Synonym of species

Species Distribution

COUNTRY PROVINCE/STATE PUBLICATION PAGE
Angola   Viette P. 1956g. Contribution à l'étude des Hepialidae (31ème note). Sur quelques spécimens du Tring Museum. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 107:373-379. 374 (as angolensis)
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the North Kivu Viette P. 1949c. Contribution à l'étude des Hepialidae (Dixième note). Hepialidae du Congo belge et du Territoire du Tanganyika. - Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines 42(3-4):201-206. 204
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Katanga Viette P. 1949c. Contribution à l'étude des Hepialidae (Dixième note). Hepialidae du Congo belge et du Territoire du Tanganyika. - Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines 42(3-4):201-206. 204
Kenya   Aurivillius C. 1921b. Sammlungen der schwedischen Elgon-Expedition im Jahre 1920. 1. Lepidopteren. - Arkiv för Zoologi 14(5):1-27. 27 (as abbotti)
Malawi   Pinhey E. C. G. 1975. Moths of southern Africa. Descriptions and colour illustrations of 1183 species. - — :i-iv, 1-273, pls 1-63. 30
Mozambique   Hampson G. F. 1910c. Zoological collections from Northern Rhodesia and adjacent territories: Lepidoptera Phalaenae. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1910(2):388-510, pls 36-41. 507
South Africa Gauteng Distant W. L. 1897d. On a collection of Heterocera made in the Transvaal. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 20:197-211. 210
South Africa KwaZulu-Natal Butler A. G. 1875b. On a collection of Lepidoptera from southern Africa, with descriptions of new genera and species. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 16(96):394-420. 402
South Africa Western Cape Cramer P. 1780-1782. De uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen Asia, Africa en America, by een verzameld en beschreeven door den heer Pieter Cramer (etc.). - — 4(25-34):1-252, pls 289-396. 128
Tanzania   Viette P. 1947. Hepialides de l'Afrique orientale. - Revue française d'Entomologie 14(1):19-24. 23 (as abottii [sic])
Zimbabwe   Pinhey E. C. G. 1975. Moths of southern Africa. Descriptions and colour illustrations of 1183 species. - — :i-iv, 1-273, pls 1-63. 30

Host Plants

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