Achaea catella Guenee 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
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852c
COMMON NAME(S): Banded achaea.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Réunion, Saint Helena, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Tanzania, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka and Kafue in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include: one Combretaceae species (Terminalia catappa L.) in the Réunion (Martiré & Rochat 2008); two Fabaceae species (Bauhinia sp. and Tamarindus sp.) in South Africa (Pinhey 1975); one Fabaceae species (Afzelia africana Pers.) in Ghana (Wagner et al. 2008); and three Euphorbiaceae species (Ricinus sp., Euphorbia systyla Edgew. and Euphorbia sp.), two Myrtaceae species (Eucalyptus sp. and Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh.), one Fabaceae species (Lonchocarpus sp.), one Convolvulaceae species (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) and one Pinaceae species (Pinus radiata D.Don) in unnamed African country or countries (Walsingham & Hampson 1896; Austara & Jones 1971; Hacker & Hausmann 2010). In addition to this, the African Moths (2019) webpage reports four Euphorbiaceae species (Ricinus communis L., Euphorbia crotonoides Boiss., Euphorbia hirta L. and E. scordiifolia Jacq.), one Rosaceae species (Malus pumila Mill.), two Fabaceae species (Pericopsis elata (Harms) Meeuwen and Acacia mearnsii De Wild.) and one Rutaceae species (Citrus sp.) as larval foodplants of this taxon.
The wasp species, Enicospilus betanimenus (Saussure) (Ichneumonidae), is reported as a parasitoid of the taxon in Zambabwe (Rousse & van Noort 2014).
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Austara & Jones, 1971; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hacker & Hausmann 2010; Martiré & Rochat 2008; Pinhey 1975; Rousse & van Noort 2014; Strand 1909a –h; Wagner et al. 2008; Walsingham & Hampson 1896.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Guenee
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Genus
- Achaea
- Species
- catella
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Achaea catella Guenee, 1852 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Guenee, A. M. (1852 c) Histoire naturelle des Insectes. VII. Species general des Lepidopteres. Noctuelites. Tome III. Librairie encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, 442 pp. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 9747241]
- Martire, D. & Rochat, J. (2008) Les papillons de La Reunion et leurs chenilles. Biotope, Meze (Collection Parthenope). Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 496 pp.
- Pinhey, E. C. G. (1975) Moths of southern Africa. Tafelberg, Cape Town, 273 pp., pls. 1 - 63.
- Wagner, M. R., Cobbinah, J. R. & Bosu, P. P. (2008) Forest entomology in West Tropical Africa. Forest insects of Ghana. Second Edition. Springer, Dordrecht, lxx + 244 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 1 - 4020 - 6508 - 8
- Walsingham, T. de G. & Hampson, G. F. (1896) On moths collected at Aden and in Somaliland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1896 (1), 257 - 283, pl. 10. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31031840] https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1896. tb 03044. x
- Austara, O. & Jones, T. (1971) Host list and distribution of lepidopterous defoliators of exotic softwoods in East Africa. East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal, 36, 401 - 413. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00128325.1971.11662487
- Hacker, H. H. & Hausmann, A. (2010) Noctuidae collected by Karlheinz Politzar in Bogue, Mauritania (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Esperiana Memoir, 5, 97 - 168.
- African Moths (2019) Not available anymore from https: // africanmoths. com / (accessed 23 November 2019)
- Rousse, P. & van Noort, S. (2014) Afrotropical Ophioninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae): an update of Gauld and Mitchell's revision, including two new species and an interactive matrix identification key. ZooKeys, 456, 59 - 73. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 456.8140
- 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)
- Strand, E. (1909 a) Lepidopteren aus Deutsch-Ost-Afrika gesammelt von Herrn Leutnant F. Trefurth. Entomologische Rundschau, 26 (18 & 19), 107 - 109 & 115 - 116. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 10187479]