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Leucania phaea Hampson 1902

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

Leucania phaea Hampson, 1902

COMMON NAME(S): Owlet Moth, Underwing or Noctuid moth.

SYNONYM(S): Cirphis leucosticha Hampson, 1905a.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Banks of Loangwa [now Luangwa] River in Loangwa [now Luangwa] valley, Eastern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include sugarcane, Saccharum pofficinarum (Poaceae). The following species from the Diptera, family Tachinidae,are parasitoids of the taxon; Aplomya sp., Cuphocera argyrocephala Macquart, C. ruficornis (Macquart), Linnaemya angulicornis (Speiser), Pales sp. and Pseudogonia rufifrons (Wiedemann) (Prinsloo & Uys 2015). In addition, Netelia sp. from the wasp family Ichneumonidae, is also a parasitoid of the taxon.

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.

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

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2C5D9FE4E62F6FCDFFD049F62

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/553187B2C5D9FE4E62F6FCDFFD049F62 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316380217 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C5D9FE4E62F6FCDFFD049F62.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hampson
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Leucania
Species
phaea
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Leucania phaea Hampson, 1902 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023

References

  • Hampson, G. F. (1902) The moths of South Africa. Part II. Annals of the South African Museum, 2, 255 - 446. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 30026963]
  • Hampson, G. F. (1905 a) Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum. V. Noctuidae. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, xvi + 634 pp. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 9809400]
  • 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.
  • 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