Anomis sabulifera ( Guenée, 1852b )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 332-333

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6
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scientific name	Anomis sabulifera ( Guenée, 1852b )
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Anomis sabulifera ( Guenée, 1852b) View in CoL

COMMON NAME(S): Brown cotton moth or Angled Gem moth. Brown Cotton Moth.

SYNONYM(S): Gonitis propinqua Butler, 1884 ; Gonitis marginata Holland, 1894 ; Amphipyra bicolorata Pagenstecher, 1907 ; Amphipyra grisea Pagenstecher, 1907 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, French Polynesia, Gambia, Ghana, Great Britain, India, Israel, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi,

Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Oman, Pitcairn Islands, Réunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena (with Ascension and Tristan da Cunha), Sao Tome & Principe, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Solwezi and Mwinilunga, in Northwestern Province; Kafue, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S):The following Malvaceae plant species are larval foodplants of the taxon, Abelmoschus esculentus Moench , Althaea sp. , Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merr., Corchorus sp. , Gossypium sp. , Grewia occidentalis L., Hibiscus sp. and Triumfetta rhomboidea Jacq. ( African Moths 2019) . SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.

Genus Attatha Moore, 1878 View in CoL