Pandesma muricolor

Pandesma muricolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Pandesma
Species: P. muricolor
Binomial name
Pandesma muricolor
Berio, 1966[1]

Pandesma muricolor is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is native to western, central & south-eastern Africa.[2]

One known foodplant of this moth is a Fabaceae (Acacia sp.)[3]

References

  1. Berio, E. 1966c. Pandesma muricolor n. sp. e Subpandesma n. gen. (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). - Bollettino della Società entomologica italiana 96(7–8):139–140
  2. afromoths.net
  3. Hacker, H. H. & Hausmann, A. 2010. Noctuidae collected by Karlheinz Politzar in Bogué, Mauritania (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). - Esperiana Memoir 5:97–168.


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