Aedia nigrescens ( Wallengren, 1856 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 331

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Aedia nigrescens ( Wallengren, 1856)

COMMON NAME (S): Scaly Alchemyst.

SYNONYM(S): Agrotis inquieta Walker, 1857 ; Hadena teretipalpa Wallengren, 1860 ; Acontia trista Snellen, 1872 ; Aedia sofala Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875 ; Aedia melanophaes Bethune-Baker, 1911 ; Matopo berhanoui Laporte, 1984 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia , Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka , in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hacker et al. 2022.

Genus Anomis H̡bner, 1821