Pericyma mendax
Pericyma mendax | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Hexapoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Subfamily: | Catocalinae |
Genus: | Pericyma |
Species: | P. mendax |
Binomial name | |
Pericyma mendax (Walker, 1858) | |
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Pericyma mendax is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found most countries in subtropical Africa south of the Sahara, in Cape Verde, Mauritius, La Réunion and Madagascar.[1]
It has a wingspan of approx. 40mm. Host plants of the larvae are Acacia mearnsii[2] and Acacia sp.[3] Fabaceae
Referencences
- Walker, 1858b. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XIII.– Noctuidae. - 13 (1957):i–iv, 1521–1888
- ↑ afromoths.net
- ↑ Martiré & Rochat, 2008. Les papillons de La Réunion et leurs chenilles, p.399
- ↑ Hacker, Fibiger, & Schreier, 2007. Macrosenta purpurascens spec. nov., eine neue Notodontidae-Art aus Yemen (Lepidoptera). - Esperiana Memoir 3:341–344.
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