Mentaxya albifrons ( Geyer, 1837a )
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C5EB-FE7F-62F6-F81FFC609BEA |
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Mentaxya albifrons ( Geyer, 1837a ) |
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Mentaxya albifrons ( Geyer, 1837a) View in CoL
COMMON NAME (S): White Quaker.
SYNONYM(S): Agrotis amatura Walker, 1858d .
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka , in Lusaka Province; Chisamba, in Central Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include potato, Solanum tuberosum L. (Solanaceae) reported for Angola ( Pinhey 1975) . No specific host plant has been indicated for the taxon in Zambia.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Kopij 2006; Pinhey 1975.
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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