Cortyta canescens Walker, 1858b

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 336-337

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-C501-FE89-62F6-F83CFDEE9BBD

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Cortyta canescens Walker, 1858b
status

 

Cortyta canescens Walker, 1858b View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Wavy Shades.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia , Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants includes Vachellia xanthophloea (Benth.) P.J.H.Hurter (Fabaceae) in Kenya ( Agassiz & Harper

2009). The African Moths (2019) webpage gives a complete name of this taxon as Vachellia (Acacia)

xanthophloea (Benth.) P.J.H.Hurter View in CoL and indicated that it is a larval foodplant of the taxon. SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022.

Genus Crypsotidia Rothschild, 1901 View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Cortyta

Family

Name

Loc

Cortyta canescens Walker, 1858b

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De 2023
2023
Loc

Crypsotidia

Rothschild 1901
1901
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