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