Metapioplasta insocia (Walker, 1858)

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 392

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15198137
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C5C9-FE5E-62F6-FCBCFD5F9E2E
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Metapioplasta insocia (Walker, 1858)
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Metapioplasta insocia (Walker, 1858) View in CoL

COMMON NAME(S): Owlet Moth, Underwing or Noctuid moth.

SYNONYM(S): Acontia concinnula Walker, 1858 ; Acontia pyralina Walker, 1858 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambua, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022.