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Chrysodeixis chalcites

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 chalcites (Esper, 1789)

COMMON NAME(S): Golden twin-spot.

SYNONYM(S): Noctua bengalensis Rossi, 1794; Plusia integra Walker, 1858a; Noctua quaestionis Fabricius, 1794.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Albania, Algeria, Angola, Austria, Azores, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Isles, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cabo Verde, Chile, Comoros, Corsica, Côte d’Ivoire, Crete, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Egypt, Eritrea, Fiji, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Gabon, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Metropolitan France, Moldova, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, Niger, Nigeria, North Italy, Norway, Oman, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Réunion, Romania, Russia, Saint Helena _ Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Sao Tome & Principe, Sardinia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia and Montenegro, Seychelles, Sicily, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Italy, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Tanzania,, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Réunion has the following larval foodplants for the taxon: Ocimum basilicum L. (Lamiaceae), Synedrella nodiflora Gaertn. (Asteraceae), Kalanchoe sp. (Crassulaceae), Duranta erecta L. (Verbenaceae), Solanum lycopersicum L. (tomato) and Solanum mauritianum Scop. (Solanaceae), Ageratum conyzoides L. (Asteraceae), Trema orientalis (L.) Blume (Ulmaceae) and Melochia pyramidata L. (Malvaceae) (Bippus 2016a). According to Gerlach & Matyot (2006), the Seychelles has the following host plants for the taxon: Scaevola taccada (Gaertn.) Roxb. (Goodeniaceae), Allamanda cathartica L. (Apocynaceae), Begonia seychellensis Hemsl. (Begoniaceae) and Tabebuia pallida Miers (Bignoniaceae) Achyrospermum seychellarum Baker (Lamiaceae), and Gloriosa superba L. (Liliaceae). So far, nolarval foodplants have been reported for Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Bippus 2016a; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Gerlach & Matyot 2006; 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 pages 429-430, 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/553187B2C5E2FE7462F6F8E4FAB2996A

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/553187B2C5E2FE7462F6F8E4FAB2996A (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/316380481 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314453/taxon/553187B2C5E2FE7462F6F8E4FAB2996A.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Esper
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Chrysodeixis
Species
chalcites
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Chrysodeixis chalcites (Esper, 1789) 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]
  • Fabricius, J. C. (1794) Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, Adjectis synonymis, Locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. 3 (2). C. G. Proft, Fil. et Soc., Hafniae, 349 pp. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 55388184]
  • Bippus, M. (2016 a) Notes on Lepidoptera from the Seychelles. Phelsuma, 24 (1), 35 - 71.
  • Gerlach, J. & Matyot, P. (2006) Lepidoptera of the Seychelles Islands. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, 130 pp., 32 pls.
  • 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