Ctenoplusia accentifera Lefebvre 1827
Description
Ctenoplusia accentifera (Lefèbvre, 1827)
(Fig. 32)
Material examined. Oromia Region, Ketebe. 1900 m. V.2009. Leg. Kravchenko V.; Oromia Region, Guder. 2000 m. V.2009. Leg. Kravchenko V.
Literature. Behounek et al. 2010; Dufay & Laporte 1977; Fletcher 1963; Goater et al. 2003; Hacker 1999; Hacker et al. 2001; Hacker et al. 1999; Wiltshire 1990.
General distribution pattern. Widespread in Mediterranean basin in Levant and in Arabian Peninsula. Migrates as far north as the British Isles. In tropical and subtropical Africa: Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda.
Distribution in Ethiopia. Throughout medium elevations (especially Shewa region). Common.
Host plants. Recorded on different herbs including Mentha and Coleus spp. (both Lamiaceae).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Genus
- Ctenoplusia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Lefebvre
- Species
- accentifera
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ctenoplusia accentifera Lefebvre, 1827 sec. Ronkay, Behounek & Müller, 2015
References
- Behounek, W., Ronkay, L. & Ronkay, G. (2010) Plusiinae 2. A Taxonomic Atlas of the Eurasian and North Africa Noctuoidea. Vol. 4. Heterocera Press, Budapest, 280 pp.
- Dufay, C., Laporte, B. & Rougeot, P. (1977) Missions entomologiques en Ethiopie, 1973 - 1975, Fasc. 1. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Serie A, 105 - 150. [Paris]
- Fletcher, D. (1963) Noctuidae. Exploration des Parcs Nationaux Congo et du Rwanda. Exploration du Pars National Albert, 2 (15), 71 - 120.
- Goater, B., Ronkay, L. & Fibiger, M. (2003) Catocalinae & Plusiinae. Noctuidae Europaeae. Vol. 10. Entomological Press, Soro, 452 pp.
- Wiltshire, E. (1990) An Illustrated, Annotated Catalogue of the Macro-Heterocera of Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 11, 91 - 287.