Eudocima materna
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
Eudocima materna (Linnaeus, 1767) *
(Fig. 35)
COMMON NAME(S): Dot Underwing, Fruitpiercing moth
SYNONYM(S): Noctua hybrida Fabricius, 1775; Ophideres chalcogramma Walker, 1865c.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Caribbean islands, Chile, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia (Java), Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Nigeria, Oman, Pacific Islands, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sao Tome & Principe, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Uganda, USA (Florida, Louisiana, Minnesota, Texas, Oklahoma), Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mwinilunga, in Northwestern Province; Ndola, in Copperbelt Province; University of Zambia Campus ** in Lusaka and Kafue **, both localities in Lusaka Province; Othreis materna (Linnaeus, 1758) collected Barotseland area or Western Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include three Menispermaceae species (Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii Diels, Rhigiocarya racemifera Miers and Tiliacora sp.) in Ghana (Forsyth 1966) and one Rosaceae species (Prunus persica (L.) Batsch or Peach) in South Africa (Prinsloo & Uys 2015). Additionally, the African Moths (2019) webpage lists the following as larval foodplants of the taxon; two Menispermaceae species (Cocculus sp. and Tinospora caffra), one Solanaceae species (Lycopersicon sp.; one Rosaceae species (Malus pumila Mill.), one Anacardiaceae species (Mangifera indica L.), one Musaceae species (Musa paradisiaca subsp. sapientum (L.) Kuntze ex K.Schum.), and one Vitaceae species (Vitis sp.).
SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Eudocima
- Species
- materna
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eudocima materna (Linnaeus, 1767) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Linnaeus, C. (1767) Systema Naturae. Editio Duodecima Reformata. Tom I. Pars II. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, pp. 533 - 1327. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 25848628]
- Fabricius, J. C. (1775) Systema Entomologiae sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. in Officina Libraria Kortii, Flensburgi et Lipsiae, 832 pp. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 25551419] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 36510
- Walker, F. (1865 c) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXXIII. Supplement Part 3. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv, 707 - 1120. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 38917760]
- Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Vol. 1. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius, Stockholm, 824 pp. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 25033847] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 542
- Cramer, P. (1779 - 1780) De uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen Asia, Africa en America, by een verzameld en beschreeven door den heer Pieter Cramer (etc.). 3 (17 - 24). S. J. Baalde, Amsterdam, 176 pp., pls. 193 - 288. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 42111895] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 65748
- Hopffer, H. C. (1857) Diagnosen der von Peters aus Mossambique mitgebrachten Lepidoptera. Monatsberichte der K ˆ niglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1857, 421 - 423. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 11071445]
- Forsyth, J. (1966) Agricultural Insects of Ghana: A list of insects recorded in Ghana on field crops and stored produce with their host plants, damage caused, locality, parasites and predators where known, together with references to the literature for Ghana and neighbouring countries covering the period 1910 - 1960. Ghana Universities Press, Accra, 163 pp.
- Prinsloo, G. L. & Uys, V. M. (Eds.) (2015) Insects of cultivated plants and natural pastures in Southern Africa. Entomological Society of Southern Africa, Hatfield, xiv + 785 pp.
- African Moths (2019) Not available anymore from https: // africanmoths. com / (accessed 23 November 2019)
- 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)
- Hampson, G. F. (1910 c) Zoological collections from Northern Rhodesia and adjacent territories: Lepidoptera Phalaenae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1910 (2), 388 - 510, pls. 36 - 41. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31563124] https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1910. tb 01899. x