Hypena lividalis (Hubner, 1790)

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 357

Hypena lividalis (H̡bner, 1790)

COMMON NAME (S): Hypenine moth

SYNONYM(S): Pyralis diagonalis Fabricius, 1794 ; Phalaena dimeralis Rossi, 1794 ; Hypena abjuralis Walker, 1859a ; Hypena scissalis Walker, 1866a ; Anepischetos bipartita Smith, 1900 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Cabo Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, Eswatini, Ethopia, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia , Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sierra leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Serenje, in Central Province ; Mpika, in Muchinga Province; Solwezi, in Northwestern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Two Urticaceae species namely, Urtica sp. and Parietaria sp. are host plants or larval foodplants of this taxon (Hacker et al. 2010; Wiltshire 1990).

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