Agrotis denticulosa Wallengren, 1860

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 417

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C5EE-FE79-62F6-FF6CFCDA985E

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scientific name

Agrotis denticulosa Wallengren, 1860
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Agrotis denticulosa Wallengren, 1860 View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Feathered Cutworm.

SYNONYM(S): Euxoa longidentifera Hampson, 1903a ; Agrotis putativa Berio, 1941 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia , Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): A polyphagous taxon which is reported to be hosted by Zea mays L. (Poaceae) in Uganda and Gossypium sp. (Malvaceae) elsewhere in Africa . No host plants have been named for the taxon in Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Agrotis

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