Amyna punctum ( Fabricius, 1794 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 400

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

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C5C1-FE56-62F6-FE6FFC2599F2

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scientific name

Amyna punctum ( Fabricius, 1794 )
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Amyna punctum ( Fabricius, 1794) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): White point.

SYNONYM(S): Noctua annulata Fabricius, 1794 ; Amyna selenampha Guenée, 1852a ; Alamis spoliata Walker, 1858b ; Hama latipennis Wallengren, 1860 ; Amyna subtracta Walker, 1862d ; Perigea trivenefica Wallengren, 1863 ; Perigea urba Wallengren, 1863 ; Perigea natalensis Wallengren, 1865 ; Hesperimorpha paradoxa Saalm ̧ller, 1880.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE)

DISTRIBUTION: Australia, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Korea, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia , Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Triticum aestivum L. (Poaceae) is one Larval foodplant of the taxon in Angola and Croton sp. (Euphorbiaceae) has been indicated as a larval foodplant of the taxon in Kenya . No larval foodplants of the taxon are known in Zambia.

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Discoverlife.org 2017; Hampson 1910c.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Amyna

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