Pantydia scissa ( Walker, 1865c )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 323

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

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scientific name

Pantydia scissa ( Walker, 1865c )
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Pantydia scissa ( Walker, 1865c) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Fruit-piercing Moth or Erebid moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa , Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mumbwa, in Central Province ; Solwezi, in Northwestern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): The only known Larval foodplant is Terminalia ivorensis A.Chev. (Combretaceae) .

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

Genus Parafodina Hampson, 1926 View in CoL

De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2022) Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication. Available from: https: // www. afromoths. net / (accessed 20 June 2023)

Hampson, G. F. (1910 b) Descriptions of new African moths. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 6 (31), 116 - 141. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 15628873] https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931008692829

Hampson, G. F. (1926) Descriptions of new genera and species of Lepidoptera Phalaenae of the subfamily Noctuinae (Noctuidae) in the British Museum (Natural History). Taylor and Francis, London, 641 pp. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 50903722]

Walker, F. (1865 c) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXXIII. Supplement Part 3. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv, 707 - 1120. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 38917760]

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Pantydia

Family

Name