Ctenoplusia fracta ( Walker, 1858a )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 430

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-C5E3-FE74-62F6-FA44FD5F9D36

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Ctenoplusia fracta ( Walker, 1858a )
status

 

Ctenoplusia fracta ( Walker, 1858a) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Broken Plusia .

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Oman, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include two Celastraceae species, Maytenus buxifolia Griseb. and Gymnosporia buxifolia (L.) Szyszył., and some yet to be identified species from the plant family Celastraceae .

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Ctenoplusia

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