Hypena lividalis (Hubner, 1790)

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 357

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-C52A-FEBD-62F6-FE4CFC36991F

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scientific name

Hypena lividalis
status

 

Hypena lividalis View in CoL (H̡bner, 1790)

COMMON NAME (S): Hypenine moth

SYNONYM(S): Pyralis diagonalis Fabricius, 1794 ; Phalaena dimeralis Rossi, 1794 ; Hypena abjuralis Walker, 1859a ; Hypena scissalis Walker, 1866a ; Anepischetos bipartita Smith, 1900 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Cabo Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, Eswatini, Ethopia, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia , Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sierra leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Serenje, in Central Province ; Mpika, in Muchinga Province; Solwezi, in Northwestern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Two Urticaceae species namely, Urtica sp. and Parietaria sp. are host plants or larval foodplants of this taxon (Hacker et al. 2010; Wiltshire 1990).

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Hypena

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