Hypena strigatus ( Fabricius, 1798 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 358

Hypena strigatus ( Fabricius, 1798)

COMMON NAME (S): Streaked Snout, Lantana defoliator caterpillar or Hypenine moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cabo Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, India, Japan, Kenya, Mauritius, Seychelles, South Africa, Taiwan, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mbala, in Northern Province ; Mufulira, in Copperbelt Province ; Lusaka , in Lusaka Province; Livingstone, in Southern Province .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include two Verbenaceae species namely, Lantana camara L. and L. trifolia L., one Acanthaceae species (i.e. Hygrophila sp. ), one Rutaceae species ( Citrus sp. ) and one Fabaceaepecies

( Desmodium sp. ).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.