Hypena strigatus ( Fabricius, 1798 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 358

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C52B-FEBC-62F6-FBB4FC369FE7

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scientific name

Hypena strigatus ( Fabricius, 1798 )
status

 

Hypena strigatus ( Fabricius, 1798) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Streaked Snout, Lantana defoliator caterpillar or Hypenine moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cabo Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, India, Japan, Kenya, Mauritius, Seychelles, South Africa, Taiwan, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mbala, in Northern Province ; Mufulira, in Copperbelt Province ; Lusaka , in Lusaka Province; Livingstone, in Southern Province .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include two Verbenaceae species namely, Lantana camara L. and L. trifolia L., one Acanthaceae species (i.e. Hygrophila sp. ), one Rutaceae species ( Citrus sp. ) and one Fabaceaepecies

( Desmodium sp. ).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Hypena

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