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Hypena fumidalis Zeller 1852

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

Hypena fumidalis Zeller, 1852

COMMON NAME(S): Streaked Snout.

SYNONYM(S): Hypena abyssinialis Guenée, 1854; Hypena ignotalis Walker, 1859a; Hypena dispunctalis Walker, 1866a.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Bahrain, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Oman, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kafue, in Lusaka Province; Mbala, in Northern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Lantana camara, a Verbenaceae invasive plant species is reported as host plant of the taxon in the United Arab Emirates (Fibiger & Legrain, 2009). The same plant species is also repoted as host plant in African countries (Gardner, 1941). The African Moths (2019) webpage, on the other hand, also includes the Verbenaceae species Lantana indica Roxb. as a larval foodplant of the taxon.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Fibiger & Legrain 2009; Pinhey 1975; Gardner 1941; Hacker 2021.

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 356, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C52DFEBA62F6FC8FFE4D9E92

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/553187B2C52DFEBA62F6FC8FFE4D9E92 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316379105 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C52DFEBA62F6FC8FFE4D9E92.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Zeller
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Hypena
Species
fumidalis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Hypena fumidalis Zeller, 1852 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Zeller, P. C. (1852) Lepidoptera Microptera, quae J. A. Wahlberg in Caffrorum terra collegit. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Nye Handlingar, Series 3, 40, 1 - 120. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 34531645]
  • Guenee, A. M. (1854) Histoire naturelle des Insectes. VIII. Species general des Lepidopteres. Deltoides et Pyralites. Librairie encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, 448 pp. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 9825694]
  • Walker, F. (1859 a) List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XVI. Deltoides. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, iv + 253 pp. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 38951345]
  • Walker, F. (1866 a) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXXIV. Supplement Part 4. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv + 1121 - 1533. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 38918178]
  • Fibiger, M. & Legrain, A. (2009) Order Lepidoptera, superfamily Noctuoidea. In: van Harten, A. (Ed.), Arthropod fauna of the UAE, 2, 480 - 660.
  • Gardner, J. C. M. (1941) Immature stages of India Lepidoptera [Parts (2) - (3)]. Indian Forest Records, 6 (8 & 9), 253 - 298 & 299 - 314.
  • African Moths (2019) Not available anymore from https: // africanmoths. com / (accessed 23 November 2019)
  • Catalogue of Life (2017) Available from: http: // www. catalogueoflife. org / col / details / species / id / 4144 eafa 8 b 576 f 76 f 63 c 2639 d 92 a 8852 (accessed 11 November 2017)
  • 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)
  • Pinhey, E. C. G. (1975) Moths of southern Africa. Tafelberg, Cape Town, 273 pp., pls. 1 - 63.