Chrysodeixis acuta
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
Chrysodeixis acuta (Walker, 1858a)
COMMON NAME(S): Silver U, Tunbridge Wells Gem, Tomato Semi-looper or Tomato Looper.
SYNONYM(S): Plusia buchholzi Pl ̂tz, 1880; Neoplusia furihatai Okano, 1963; Shensiplusia nigribursa Chou & Lu, 1974.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Afghanistan, Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cabo Verde, China, Comoros, Cook Islands, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Great Britain, India, Ireland, Japan, Java, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Portugal, Republic of Congo, Saint Helena _ Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Sao Tome & Principe, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): The following larval foodplants are known in South Africa: Solanum lycopersicum L. and Solanum tuberosum L. from the plant family Solanaceae; Musa sp. (Musaceae); Gossypium sp. (Malvaceae) and Chrysanthemum sp. (Asteraceae). Solanum sp. (Solanaceae) and Nicotiana sp. both from the family Solanaceae are host plants in Madagascar. Canna sp. (Cannaceae) is a larval foodplant of the taxon in Zimbabwe, Phaseolus sp. (Fabaceae) in Angola, Solanum melongena L. (Solanaceae) in Japan and Arctium lappa L. (Asteraceae) in an unspecified country of Africa. No larval foodplants have been specified for Zambia yet.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1913b.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Genus
- Chrysodeixis
- Species
- acuta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chrysodeixis acuta (Walker, 1858) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Walker, F. (1858 a) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XII. Noctuidae. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv + 765 - 982. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 39340236]
- Okano, M. (1963) Descriptions of a new species and a new genus of Plusiinae from Japan (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Insecta Matsumurana, 25 (2), 91 - 92. [http: // eprints. lib. hokudai. ac. jp / dspace / bitstream / 2115 / 9690 / 1 / 25 (2) _ p 91 - 92. pdf]
- 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. (1913 b) Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). XIII. Noctuidae. The Trustees of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), London, xiv + 609 pp. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 32577606]