Nodaria nodosalis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851)

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 355

Nodaria nodosalis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851)

COMMON NAME (S): Litter moth.

SYNONYM(S): Herminia aethiopalis Herrich-Schäffer, 1851 ; Nodaria hispanalis Guenée, 1854 ; Bocana aesopusalis Walker, 1859a ; Zeuxinia aeschrina Legrand, 1966 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Ealuated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, France, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greece (Crete), Israel, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malta, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Oman, Portugal, Serbia and Montenegro, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kabwe and Mkushi, in Central Province ; Livingstone and Mazabuka, in Southern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): According to Hacker (2016a) two yet to be identified plant species Ipomoea sp. (Convolvulaceae) and Lactuca sp. (Asteraceae) are host plants of the taxon. The African Moths (2019) webpage includes a yet to be identified Macadamia sp. (Proteaceae) to this list as larval foodplants of the taxon.

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

Genus Simplicia Guenée, 1854