Achaea mormoides Walker, 1858c

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 330

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1

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scientific name

Achaea mormoides Walker, 1858c
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Achaea mormoides Walker, 1858c

COMMON NAME (S): Catocaline Moth or Underwing.

SYNONYM(S): Achaea mania Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874 ; Achaea schuetzei Bryk, 1915 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sao Tome & Principe, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kaoma, in Western Province ; Ndola, in Copperbelt Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include a yet to be identified Citrus sp. (Rutaceae) , Glycine max (L.) Merr. ( Fabaceae ) and Ricinus communis L. ( Euphorbiaceae ) ( African Moths 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Achaea

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