Acanthovalva inconspicuaria (Hübner, 1819)

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 205

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Acanthovalva inconspicuaria
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Acanthovalva inconspicuaria (H̡bner, 1819)

COMMON NAME (S): Geometer moth.

SYNONYM(S): Eubolia pumicaria Lederer, 1855 ; Selidosema osyraria Guenée, 1857b ; Acidalia cinerascens Butler, 1875a ; Tephrina perturbata Bastelberger, 1908 ; Tephrina cinnamomaria Rothschild, 1914 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Greece, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia , Niger, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mumbwa in Central Province ; Lusaka in Lusaka Province; and Solwezi in Northwestern Province .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): A known host plant for the larvae of this species is Acacia nilotica (L.) Delile ( Fabaceae ).

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

Genus Acrasia Rogenhofer, 1875 View in CoL