Apisa canescens Walker, 1855b

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 304

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6
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scientific name	Apisa canescens Walker, 1855b
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Apisa canescens Walker, 1855b View in CoL

COMMON NAME(S): Greyling.

SYNONYM(S): Apisa cana Holland, 1893a ; Apisa microcanescens Berio, 1935 ; Psichotoe pallata Pl ̂tz, 1880; Apisa tamsi Kiriakoff, 1957b .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Livingstone, in Southern Province; Kapiri Mposhi, in Central Province; Ndola, in Copperbelt Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include Cosmos sulphureus Cav. (Asteraceae) .

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.

Genus Balacra Walker, 1856a View in CoL