Apisa canescens Walker, 1855b

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 304

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
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scientific name	Apisa canescens Walker, 1855b
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Apisa canescens Walker, 1855b View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Greyling.

SYNONYM(S): Apisa cana Holland, 1893a ; Apisa microcanescens Berio, 1935 ; Psichotoe pallata Pl ̂tz, 1880; Apisa tamsi Kiriakoff, 1957b .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia , Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Livingstone, in Southern Province ; Kapiri Mposhi, in Central Province; Ndola, in Copperbelt Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include Cosmos sulphureus Cav. (Asteraceae) .

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.

Genus Balacra Walker, 1856a View in CoL