Grammodes bifasciata ( Petagna, 1787 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 342-343

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C51B-FE8F-62F6-F91CFB469A8A

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Grammodes bifasciata ( Petagna, 1787 )
status

 

Grammodes bifasciata ( Petagna, 1787) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Noctuid moth.

SYNONYM(S): Noctua linearis Ḩbner, 1790; Noctua parallela Cyrillo, 1790 ; Noctua chalciptera Borkhausen, 1792 ; Noctua parallelaris Ḩbner, 1803.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Cameroon, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Eswatini, Europe, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia , Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Réunion, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Ugand, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kasanka National Park [Latitude, - 12.555292° South; Longitude, 30.295187° East] and another nearby unnamed locality [Latitude, - 12.55529° South; Longitude, 30.29519° East], in Central Province GoogleMaps .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Cistus salvifolius L., Cistus sp. (Cistaceae) ; Polygonum sp. (Polygonacae) ; Rubus (Rosaceae) , Smilax sp. (Smilaceae) ( Hacker 2016).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Discover life.org 2017; Scan-bugs Organization 2019a.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Grammodes

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