Hypotacha ochribasalis (Hampson, 1896)

Kravchenko, Vasiliy D., Poltavsky, Alexander N. & Müller, Günter C., 2018, Addendum to the Israeli Noctuoidea fauna (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Erebidae, Israel Journal of Entomology (Oxford, England) 48 (1), pp. 89-98 : 90

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1473586
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scientific name	Hypotacha ochribasalis (Hampson, 1896)
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2. Hypotacha ochribasalis (Hampson, 1896) View in CoL

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Material: 2 specimens. Southern Negev , Nahal Shlomo, x.2010, V. Kravchenko & G. Müller .

Distribution: Afrotropical with penetration to Mediterranean: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritania, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen, and Iraq. This is the first record of the species in the Levant.

Habitat and phenology: The species occurs in steppes and savannas. In Saudi Arabia it is flying in April and in September to October ( Wiltshire 1990; Kühne 2005).

Host plants: Unknown. Probably Acacia spp. ( Fabaceae ) like for Hypotacha indecisa (Walker, 1858) .