Aedia nigrescens (Wallengren, 1856)

COMMON NAME(S): Scaly Alchemyst.

SYNONYM(S): Agrotis inquieta Walker, 1857; Hadena teretipalpa Wallengren, 1860; Acontia trista Snellen, 1872; Aedia sofala Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875; Aedia melanophaes Bethune-Baker, 1911; Matopo berhanoui Laporte, 1984.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hacker et al. 2022.

Genus Anomis H̡bner, 1821