Scopula Libyssa
''Scopula libyssa'' is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Africa. The larvae feed on ''Oxyanthus monteiroi'', ''Oxyanthus speciosus'' and ''Randia axillare''. Subspecies *''Scopula libyssa libyssa'' (Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda) *''Scopula libyssa ethelinda'' (Kirby, 1896) (Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania) *''Scopula libyssa monteironis'' (Druce, 1883) *''Scopula libyssa natalensis'' (Prout, 1917) (South Africa) References

Moths described in 1858 Scopula, libyssa Moths of Sub-Saharan Africa {{Scopula-stub ...
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Carl Heinrich Hopffer
Carl Heinrich Hopffer (1810–1876) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. Hopffer was a curator (Custos) at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. He described many new species mainly in the following works. *''Neue Schmetterlinge der Insekten-Sammlung des Konigl. Zoologischen Musei der Universitat zu Berlin'' with Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug (1836) *Lepidoptera Diurna. In Hr Peters legte von sie nem Reisewerke uber Mossambique… Diagnosen Coleopteren und Lepidopteren. ''Berichte uber die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Konigl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin'' 1855:639-643 (1855) *''Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique, auf befehl Seiner Majestat des konigs Friedrich Wilhelm IV in den jahfren 1842 bis 1848 ausfefuhrt von Wilhelm Peters, Wilhelm C.H. Peters'' ( Zoologie. V. Insecten und myriopoden) Berlin: in German (1862) *Ueber Cenea Stoll. ''Entomologische Zeitung. Herausgegeben von dem Stettin Entomological Society ...
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