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

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-C52A-FEBD-62F6-FE4CFC36991F

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scientific name

Hypena lividalis
status

 

Hypena lividalis View in CoL (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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Hypena

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