Anomis flava ( Fabricius, 1775 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 332

Anomis flava ( Fabricius, 1775)

COMMON NAME (S): Cotton Moth or cotton semi-looper SYNONYM(S): Cosmophila aurantiaca Prittwitz, 1867 ; Cirroedia edentata Walker, 1857b ; Xanthia fimbriago Stephens, 1829; Cosmophila indica Guenée, 1852b ; Anomis serrata Barnes & McDunnough, 1913 ; Noctua stigmatizans Fabricius,

1775; Cirroedia variolosa Walker, 1857b ; Cosmophila xanthindyma Boisduval, 1833 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Angola, Australia, Benin, Bermuda, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Caribbean islands (Antilles (Greater Antilles ( Puerto Rico, Cuba, Hispaniola ), Chad, China, Comoros, Cook Islands,

Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Gabon, Gambia,

Ghana, Hawaii, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius,

Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia , New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Norfolk Island, Oman, Pakistan, Papua

New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Réunion, Russia, Saint Helena (with Ascension and Tristan da Cunha), Sao Tome &

Principe, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia,

Tanzania, Uganda, USA (South Carolina), Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Livingstone, in Southern Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Foodplants include: three Malvaceae species ( Hibiscus liliiflorus Cav. , H. rosa-sinensis L. and Gossypium sp. ) in the Seychelles (; Legrand 1966; Gerlach & Matyot 2006); one Malvaceae species ( Bombax ceiba

L.) in Kenya ( Gardner 1957) ; one Malvaceae species ( Abelmoschus esculentus Moench ) in Uganda

( Nyiira 1973); two Malvaceae species ( Sida rhombifolia L. and Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L.) in the

Réunion ( Bippus 2018); one Malvaceae species ( Sida rhombifolia L.) in Madagascar ( Bippus 2018);

one Malvaceae species ( Gossypium sp. ) in Mauritius ( Mamet & Williams 1993); and three Malvaceae species ( Gossypium sp. , Hibiscus sp. and Sida sp. ), one Convolvulaceae species ( Ipomoea sp. ), one

Solanaceae species ( Lycopersicon sp. ) and one Fabaceae species ( Vigna sp. ) in unnamed African country or countries ( Gardner 1957; Pinhey 1975; Robinson & Kirke 1990). No specific host plants of the taxon have been identified with Zambia.

The wasp species, Enicospilus dolosus (Tosquinet) (Ichneumonidae) , is a parasitoid of the taxon in the

Réunion ( Rousse & van Noort 2014).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Bippus 2018; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Gardner 1957; Gerlach & Matyot 2006; Legrand 1966; Mamet & Williams 1993; Nyiira 1973; Pinhey 1975; Robinson & Kirke 1990; Rousse & van

Noort 2014.