Mythimna umbrigera, Saalmuller, 1891

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 410

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scientific name	Mythimna umbrigera
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Mythimna umbrigera View in CoL (Saalm̡ller, 1891)

COMMON NAME (S): Owlet Moth, Underwing or Noctuid moth.

SYNONYM(S): Cirphis metalampra Hampson, 1918a ; Leucania palaearctica Boursin & Rungs, 1952 ; Leucania panaethiopica Boursin & Rungs, 1952 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cabo Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Madagascar, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum (Poaceae) in Morocco and rice, Oryza sativa (Poaceae) elsewhere in an unnamedcountry in Africa . No host plants of the taxon are known in Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Fletcher 1963.

Subfamily Oncocnemidinaae

Genus Nyodes Laporte, 1970 View in CoL