Ocnerogyia amanda Staudinger, 1892

FAMILY	Erebidae
SUBFAMILY	Lymantriinae
GENUS	Ocnerogyia
SPECIES	amanda
AUTHOR	Staudinger, 1892
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Ocnerogyia Stgr. nov. gen. Amanda Stgr. n. sp.
TYPE LOCALITY	[Turkey], Mesopotamia, Mardin.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Holotype ♂, MfN.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Staudinger O. 1892a. Neue Arten und Varietäten von Lepidopteren des palaearktischen Faunengebiets. - Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 4 (1891)(2):224-339.
PAGINATION	254-255

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Oman		Hacker H. H. 2016a. Systematic and illustrated catalogue of the Macroheterocera and Cossoidea Leach, [1815], Zygaenoidea Latreille, 1809, Thyridoidea Herrich-Schäffer, 1846 and Hyblaeoidea Hampson, 1903 of the Arabian Peninsula, with a survey of their distribution (Lepid.). - Esperiana 20(1):1-742; (2): 1-430.	189
United Arab Emirates		Legrain A. & Wiltshire E. P. 1998. Provisional checklist of the Macro-Heterocera (Lepidoptera) of the UAE. - Tribulus 8(2):5-8.	6

Notes: Palaearctic: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey.

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Moraceae	Ficus sp.	United Arab Emirates	Fibiger M. & Legrain A. 2009. Order Lepidoptera, superfamily Noctuoidea. - In: van Harten, A. (ed.) Arthropod fauna of the UAE. - — 2:480—660.	569
Moraceae	Ficus sp.	Iraq	Buxton P. A. 1920. A liparid moth (Ocnerogyia amanda, Staud.) destructive to figs in Mesopotamia. - Bulletin of Entomological Research 11:181-186.

* Description of the larva in P. A. Buxton (1920: 183-185); see also Ramachandra Rao, Scott (1929).