Vittaplusia vittata ( Wallengren, 1856 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 432-434

Vittaplusia vittata ( Wallengren, 1856)

COMMON NAME (S): Streaked Plusia .

SYNONYM(S): Trichoplusia borbonica Guillermet, 2005 ; Abrostola commidendri Wollaston, 1879 ; Abrostola transfixa Walker, 1858a .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Oman, Réunion, Saint Helena _ Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include species from the families Asteraceae ( Artemisia afra Jacq. ex Willd. , Erigeron sumatrensis Retz. , Callistephus chinensis Nees , C. chinensis Nees , and Commidendrum robustum (Roxb.) DC. ) Lamiaceae ( Syncolostemon densiflorus Benth. ) and Solanaceae ( Solanum mauritianum Scop. and S. crinitum Lam. ).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Kopij 2006.

Unassigned

Genus Callegaria Berio, 1976