Thysanoplusia exquisita (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 431

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-C5E0-FE77-62F6-F9E4FC609DD6

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Thysanoplusia exquisita (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
status

 

Thysanoplusia exquisita (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Exquisite Plusia . SYNONYM(S): None. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Afghanistan, Angola, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Iran, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia , Oman,

Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa , Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include the following species from the family Asteraceae : Euryops spathaceus DC .,

Senecio bupleuroides DC. , and S. rhomboideus Harv .. In addition to this, the African Moths (2019)

website names the Asteraceae species, Helianthus annuus L., as also a larval foodplant of the taxon. SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Kopij 2006; Pinhey 1975.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Thysanoplusia

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