Ericeia inangulata ( Guenée, 1852c )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 342

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-C51B-FE8C-62F6-FCA0FD049EAB

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Ericeia inangulata ( Guenée, 1852c )
status

 

Ericeia inangulata ( Guenée, 1852c) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Sober Tabby or Erebine Moth.

SYNONYM(S): Remigia optativa Walker, 1858c ; Remigia optatura Walker, 1858d ; Remigia intracta Walker, 1864c ; Remigia zeta Walker, 1864c ; Remigia comitata Walker, 1865c ; Hulodes umbrosa Walker, 1869a ; Remigia intextilia Schultze, 1908 ; Thalpochares subcinerea Snellen, 1880b ; Ericeia certilinea Prout, 1929b ; Ericeia levuensis Prout, 1929a .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cabo Verde, Comoros, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kaoma, in Western Province ; Mumbwa, in Central Province ; Petauke, in Eastern Province ; Lusaka , in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include five Fabaceae species ( Acacia mearnsi De Wild. , Mimosa sp. , Albiza sp., Cassia fistula L. and C. javanica L. ), one Rhamnaceae species ( Scutia myrtina ) and one Rutaceae species ( Citrus sp. ).

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Ericeia

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