Amyna punctum ( Fabricius, 1794 )

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

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15198171

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C5C1-FE56-62F6-FE6FFC2599F2

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scientific name

Amyna punctum ( Fabricius, 1794 )
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Amyna punctum ( Fabricius, 1794) View in CoL

COMMON NAME(S): White point.

SYNONYM(S): Noctua annulata Fabricius, 1794 ; Amyna selenampha Guenée, 1852a ; Alamis spoliata Walker, 1858b ; Hama latipennis Wallengren, 1860 ; Amyna subtracta Walker, 1862d ; Perigea trivenefica Wallengren, 1863 ; Perigea urba Wallengren, 1863 ; Perigea natalensis Wallengren, 1865 ; Hesperimorpha paradoxa Saalm ̧ller, 1880.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE)

DISTRIBUTION: Australia, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Korea, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Triticum aestivum L. (Poaceae) is one Larval foodplant of the taxon in Angola and Croton sp. (Euphorbiaceae) has been indicated as a larval foodplant of the taxon in Kenya . No larval foodplants of the taxon are known in Zambia.

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Discoverlife.org 2017; Hampson 1910c.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Amyna

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