Leucania phaea Hampson, 1902

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 408

Leucania phaea Hampson, 1902

COMMON NAME (S): Owlet Moth, Underwing or Noctuid moth. SYNONYM(S): Cirphis leucosticha Hampson, 1905a . IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius,

Mozambique, Réunion, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Banks of Loangwa [now Luangwa] River in Loangwa [now Luangwa] valley, Eastern Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include sugarcane, Saccharum pofficinarum (Poaceae) . The following species from the

Diptera , family Tachinidae ,are parasitoids of the taxon; Aplomya sp. , Cuphocera argyrocephala Macquart ,

C. ruficornis (Macquart) , Linnaemya angulicornis (Speiser) , Pales sp. and Pseudogonia rufifrons

(Wiedemann) ( Prinsloo & Uys 2015). In addition, Netelia sp. from the wasp family Ichneumonidae , is also a parasitoid of the taxon. SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.

Genus Leumicamia Viette, 1965a