Mentaxya albifrons ( Geyer, 1837a )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 422-423

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C5EB-FE7F-62F6-F81FFC609BEA

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Plazi

scientific name

Mentaxya albifrons ( Geyer, 1837a )
status

 

Mentaxya albifrons ( Geyer, 1837a) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): White Quaker.

SYNONYM(S): Agrotis amatura Walker, 1858d .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka , in Lusaka Province; Chisamba, in Central Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include potato, Solanum tuberosum L. (Solanaceae) reported for Angola ( Pinhey 1975) . No specific host plant has been indicated for the taxon in Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Kopij 2006; Pinhey 1975.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Mentaxya

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