Trigonodes hyppasia ( Cramer, 1779 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 353

Trigonodes hyppasia ( Cramer, 1779) * ( Fig. 40 )

COMMON NAME(S): Triangles or Semilooper moth.

SYNONYM(S): Ophiusa anfractuosa Boisduval, 1833 ; Noctua deliana Stoll, 1790 ; Trigonodes acutata Guenée, 1852 ; Trigonodes compar Walker, 1858c ; Trigonodes inacuta Guenée, 1852c .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Australia, Botswana, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, China, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, India, Java, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Republic of Congo, Réunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sumatra, Taiwan, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kafue ** and University of Zambia Campus ** in Lusaka, both localities in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include two Fabaceae species Indigofera sp. and Medicago sativa L. ( African Moths 2019).

The wasp Enicospilus rufus (Brullé) (Ichneumonidae) is a parasitoid of the taxon.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1913a.

Genus Tytroca Wiltshire, 1970

Figures

FIGURES 38–40. Adult moths. 38a, Nephele peneus (Cramer, 1776) (Sphingidae: Macroglossinae). Collected at a black light trap in Lusaka, 6 May 2011, dorsal view; 38b, ditto, ventral view. 39a, Temnora natalis Walker, 1856—Natal Temnora (Sphingidae: Macroglossinae) collected at a black light trap, Lusaka, 5 January 2011; 39b, ditto, ventral view. 40a, Asota speciosa (Drury, 1773)—Specious Tiger (Erebidae: Aganainae) caught at a black light trap in Lusaka, 8 March 2011; 40b, ditto, ventral view. Scale bar 2 cm. © Kind permission of the University of Zambia.