Trigonodes hyppasia ( Cramer, 1779 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 353

Trigonodes hyppasia ( Cramer, 1779) * ( Fig. 40 )

COMMON NAME (S): Triangles or Semilooper moth.

SYNONYM(S): Ophiusa anfractuosa Boisduval, 1833 ; Noctua deliana Stoll, 1790 ; Trigonodes acutata Guenée, 1852 ; Trigonodes compar Walker, 1858c ; Trigonodes inacuta Guenée, 1852c .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Australia, Botswana, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, China, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, India, Java, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia , New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Republic of Congo, Réunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sumatra, Taiwan, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kafue ** and University of Zambia Campus ** in Lusaka , both localities in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include two Fabaceae species Indigofera sp. and Medicago sativa L. ( African Moths 2019).

The wasp Enicospilus rufus (Brullé) (Ichneumonidae) is a parasitoid of the taxon.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1913a.

Genus Tytroca Wiltshire, 1970

Figures

FIGURES 38–40. Adult moths. 38a, Nephele peneus (Cramer, 1776) (Sphingidae: Macroglossinae). Collected at a black light trap in Lusaka, 6 May 2011, dorsal view; 38b, ditto, ventral view. 39a, Temnora natalis Walker, 1856—Natal Temnora (Sphingidae: Macroglossinae) collected at a black light trap, Lusaka, 5 January 2011; 39b, ditto, ventral view. 40a, Asota speciosa (Drury, 1773)—Specious Tiger (Erebidae: Aganainae) caught at a black light trap in Lusaka, 8 March 2011; 40b, ditto, ventral view. Scale bar 2 cm. © Kind permission of the University of Zambia.