Udea ferrugalis, Hubner, 1796

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 117

Udea ferrugalis (H̡bner, 1796)

COMMON NAME(S): Rusty dot pearl.

SYNONYM(S): Scopula hypatialis Walker, 1859d ; Scopula martialis Guenée, 1854 ; Pionea obsoleta Costantini, 1923 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Ascension Island, Botswana, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Oman, Réunion, Saint Helena, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, South Africa, Sudan, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Stachys sp. (Lamiaceae) , Calendula sp. , Cichorium intybus L., Eupatorium sp. , Erigeron sp. (Asteraceae) , Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. ( Convolvulaceae ), Beta vulgaris L. ( Amaranthaceae ), Capsicum sp. , Solanum lycopersicum L., S. melongena L. ( Solanaceae ) Cucurbita sp. (Cucurbitaceae) , Lepidium capense Thunb. (Brassicaceae).

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Mally et al. 2022; Robinson& Kirke 2010; Taylor 1953.