Grammodes geometrica ( Fabricius, 1775 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 343

Grammodes geometrica ( Fabricius, 1775)

COMMON NAME (S): Geometrician, Geometrical Lines.

SYNONYM(S): Noctua ammonia Cramer, 1780 ; Grammodes orientalis Warren, 1913b .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia , Nigeria, Sao Tome & Principe, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka , in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include yet to be indentified Cistaceae species (i.e. Cistus sp. ) and Polygonaceae species ( Polygonum sp. ) ( Pinhey, 1975). Two Polygonaceae species ( Polygonum Persicaria and Oxygonum atriplicifolium Martelli. ), one Euphorbiaceae species ( Ricinus sp. ), one Poaceae species ( Zea mays L. ), one Rhamnaceae species ( Ziziphus mauritiana Lam. ) and one Cistaceae species ( Cistus salviifolius L.) are reported as larval foodplants of the taxon ( African Moths 2019).

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.