Grammodes stolida ( Fabricius, 1775 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 343-344

Grammodes stolida ( Fabricius, 1775)

COMMON NAME (S): Stolid lines or Geometrician.

SYNONYM(S): Noctua cingularis Ḩbner, 1808; Grammodes curvilinea Walker, 1869b ; Euclidia stupida Herrich-Schaffer, 1851 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE)

DISTRIBUTION: Europe, Australia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Algeria, India, British Isles, Turkey, Great Britain, Madagascar, Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Romania, France, Switzerland, Slovenia, Ireland, Iberian Peninsula, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Spain, Africa, Seychelles, Canary Islands, Denmark, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, Ukraine, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Lithuania, Republic of Macedonia, Asia, Albania, Belarus, Georgia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Malawi, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Malta, Saudi Arabia, Serbia and Montenegro, Pakistan, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia , Sierra Leone, Somalia, Chad, Gambia, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Réunion, Comoros, Yemen, Lesotho, Eritrea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Metropolitan France, Sudan and South Sudan, Zambia, Russia, White Russia, Republic South Africa.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka , in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Polyphagous.

SOURCES: Bingham et al. 2010; De Prins & De Prins 2022.

Genus Heteropalpia Berio, 1939