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Callioratis millari Hampson, 1905

Millar's tiger moth

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1928 (Staude, 2001)

Rediscovered in 1997 (van Rensburg et al., 2024)

 

Distribution & Habitat

South Africa

 

Anatomy & Morphology

 

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Armstrong, Adrian J. (2005). Management Guidelines for Millar’s Tiger Moth Callioratis millari. Unpublished report, Biodiversity Research Division, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, Pietermaritzburg.

Louw, Sharon L. and Armstrong, Adrian J. (2018). Field work undertaken during 2017–2018 on the critically endangered Callioratis millari (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Diptychinae). Metamorphosis 29(1): 39-43.

Staude, H. S. (2001). A revision of the genus Callioratis Felder (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Diptychinae). Metamorphosis 12(4): 125-156.

Terblanche, R. F. (2018). Nectar plants, pollination and implications for dispersal corridors of the critically endangered Callioratis millari (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Diptychinae). Metamorphosis 29(1): 47-50.

van Rensburg, Paul Duvel Janse, Bezuidenhout, Hugo, Steyn, Tommie and van den Berg, Johnnie. (2024). A new distribution and host record for the rare moth, Callioratis millari (Lepidoptera: Geometridae), and some ecological observations. Environmental Entomology. https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvae008

 

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