Ctenoplusia dorfmeisteri (Felder, 1874)

(Figs. 33; 64, 65, 66)

Material examined. Tigray region, Debark, 2800 m, V.2005. Leg. Kravchenko V.

Literature. Behounek & Ronkay 1989; Behounek et al. 2010; Dufay 1970; Dufay & Laporte 1977; Fletcher 1963.

General distribution pattern. In tropical and subtropical Africa: Cameroon, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, including Island Bioko, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast (reports from Réunion and Mauritius are misidentifications with Ctenoplusia rhodochrysa de Joannis, 1906), Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Zimbabwe. In Palearctic region found in Yemen.

Distribution in Ethiopia. Everywhere except highlands above 3.000 m and deserts. Locally common.