Amyna axis Guenée, 1852a

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 399-400

Amyna axis Guenée, 1852a

COMMON NAME (S): Eight-Spot, Small white point, Eight-spot Moth

SYNONYM(S): Perigea octo Guenée, 1852a ; Ilattia cephusalis Walker, 1859a ; Amyna colon Guenée, 1862 ; Celaena obstructa Walker, 1862d ; Perigea vexabilis Wallengren, 1863 ; Miana inornata Walker, 1865b ; Perigea leucospila Walker, 1865b ; Stridova albigutta Walker, 1869b ; Erastria stigmatula Snellen, 1872 ; Erastria bavia Felder R. & Rogenhofer, 1875 ; Amyna undulifera Butler, 1875a ; Botys monotretalis Mabille, 1880 ; Perigea supplex Swinhoe, 1885a ; Berresa rufa Bethune-Baker, 1906 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Nigeria, Oman, Réunion, Sao Tome & Principe, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Also occurs in the Australasian region: Australia, Fiji, Hawaii, Marquesas, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tonga; the Oriental region: Andamans, India, New Guinea, Singapore, Sri Lanka; and the Palaearctic region: China, Korea, Siberia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include Beta vulgaris L. ( Chenopodiaceae ), in Uganda and Chenopodium album L. ( Chenopodiaceae ), elsewhere in an unnamed country in Africa . No larval foodplants known for the taxon in Zambia.

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.