Eublemma scitula ( Rambur, 1833 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 311

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C578-FEEF-62F6-FEA8FCDA98B2
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Eublemma scitula ( Rambur, 1833 )
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Treatment

Eublemma scitula ( Rambur, 1833) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Grey Eublemma SYNONYM View in CoL (S): Eublemma almaviva Berio, 1947 View in CoL ; Eublemma atrimedia Hampson, 1914b View in CoL ; Eulocastra cretacea Hampson, 1893b View in CoL ; Nola exasperata Lederer, 1855 ; Erastria futilis Swinhoe, 1884 ; Eublemma geyeri Rothschild, 1915a ; Agrophila gibbosa View in CoL

Snellen, 1872.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia , Nigeria, Réunion,

Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Chilanga, Kafue and Lusaka, in Lusaka Province; Kabwe, in Central Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larvae of the taxon feed on scale insects (Super family Coccoidea ) including Ceroplastes a wax scale insect in the family Coccidae and Coccus hesperidium Linnaeus, 1758 , a soft scale insect in the same family, Coccidae .

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Noctuidae
Genus	Eublemma