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Published October 16, 2023 | Version v1
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Aedia nigrescens

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Zambia, P. O. Box 32379, Lusaka, Zambia
  • 2. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium & Australian National Insect Collection, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia

Description

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.

Notes

Published as part of Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), pp. 1-503 in Zootaxa 5354 (1) on page 331, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C504FE9362F6FA74FD6F9D47

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/10130434 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/A908FFCAC44EFFD96261FFB3FFBF9A67 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/553187B2C504FE9362F6FA74FD6F9D47 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316380356 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C504FE9362F6FA74FD6F9D47.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Wallengren
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Aedia
Species
nigrescens
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Aedia nigrescens (Wallengren, 1856) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Wallengren, H. D. J. (1856) Anteckningar I Zoologien. I. Kafferlandets Macrolepidoptera-fauna. Akademisk Afhandling, Berlingska Boktryckeriet, Lund, 97 pp. [https: // play. google. com / books / reader? id = orRYAAAAcAAJ & pg = GBS. PA 4 & hl = en]
  • Wallengren, H. D. J. (1860) Lepidopterologische Mittheilungen. Wiener entomologische Monatschrift, 4 (2 & 6), 33 - 46 & 161 - 176. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31290301]
  • Snellen, P. C. T. (1872) Bijdrage tot de vlinder-fauna van Neder-Guinea, zuidwestelijk gedeelte van Afrika. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 15, 1 - 110, pls. 1 - 8. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 10839081]
  • Kr ΒΈ ger, M. (2013) Revision of Acrasia Rogenhofer, 1875 and description of Panhyperochia gen. nov., a new genus of putative nacophorine geometrids from South Africa (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae). Annals of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, 3, 99 - 152.
  • Bethune-Baker, G. T. (1911) Descriptions of new African Heterocera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 7 (42), 530 - 576. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 22098491] https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931108692976
  • Laporte, B. (1984) Noctuidae (Sauf les Plusiinae). In: Rougeot, P. - C., Missions entomologiques en Ethiopie 1976 - 1982. Fascicule II. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Series A, 128, pp. 14 - 41, pls. 1 - 18. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 57927404]
  • De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2022) Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication. Available from: https: // www. afromoths. net / (accessed 20 June 2023)
  • Hacker, H. H., Fiebig, R., Goater, B., Schreier, H. - P. & Stadie, D. (2022) Moths of Africa. Systematic and illustrated catalogue of the Heterocera of Africa. Vol. 3 Acontiinae (Noctuidae) (including Aediini Beck, 1960) based on traditional treatment). Esperiana Verlag, Bad Staffelstein, 695 pp.