Amyna punctum (Fabricius, 1794)

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FAMILY	Noctuidae
SUBFAMILY	Bagisarinae
GENUS	Amyna
SPECIES	punctum
AUTHOR	(Fabricius, 1794)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	N.[octua] punctum
TYPE LOCALITY	India, "Habitat in India orientali Prof. Abildgaard."
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Syntypes, ZMUC.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Fabricius J. C. 1794. Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, Adjectis synonymis, Locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. - — 3(2):1-349.
PAGINATION	34-35

Species pictures

Synonyms

NAME	AUTHOR	STATUS
annulata	(Fabricius, 1794)	Synonym of species
latipennis	(Wallengren, 1860)	Synonym of species
natalensis	(Wallengren, 1865)	Synonym of species
paradoxa	(Saalmüller, 1880)	Synonym of species
selenampha	Guenée, 1852	Synonym of species
spoliata	(Walker, 1858)	Synonym of species
subtracta	Walker, 1862	Synonym of species
trivenefica	(Wallengren, 1863)	Synonym of species
urba	(Wallengren, 1863)	Synonym of species

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Botswana		Hampson G. F. 1910e. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). X. Noctuidae. - — 10:i-xix, 1-829.	473
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	Orientale	Holland W. J. 1920. Lepidoptera of the Congo, being a systematic list of the butterflies and moths collected by the American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition, together with descriptions of some hitherto undescribed species. - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 43(6):109-369, pls 6-14.	289
Eritrea		Berio E. 1939a. Contributi alla conoscenza dei lepidotteri eteroceri dell'Eritrea I. Lista delle specie con descrizioni delle nuove entità raccolte negli anni 1934 al 1937 dal sig. Francesco Vaccaro. - Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 17(1):47-62, pls 1-2.	55
Ethiopia		Berio E. 1984. Noctuidae (Quadrifinae, en majorité). - In: Rougeot, P.-C., Missions entomologiques en Ethiopie 1976-1982. - Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (A)128:42-48, pl. 3.	44
Ghana		Hampson G. F. 1910e. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). X. Noctuidae. - — 10:i-xix, 1-829.	473
Kenya		Butler A. G. 1898. On a collection of Lepidoptera made in British East Africa by Mr. C. S. Betton. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 57:395-444, pls. 32-33.	420 (as selenampha)
Madagascar		Hampson G. F. 1910e. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). X. Noctuidae. - — 10:i-xix, 1-829.	473
Mozambique		Rebel H. 1907a. Lepidopteren aus Südarabien und von der Insel Sokotra. - Denkschriften der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 71(2):31-130, pl. 1.	90 (as selenampha)
Namibia		Wallengren H. D. J. 1863a. Lepidopterologische Mittheilungen. III. - Wiener entomologische Monatschrift 7(5):137-151.	148 (as urba)
Oman		Wiltshire E. P. 1980b. The larger moths of Dhofar and their zoogeographic composition. - Journal of Oman Studies Special Rep. 2:187-216.	202
Saudi Arabia		Hacker H. H. & Saldaitis A. 2010. Noctuidae of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen) with notes on the fauna of the southern Arabian Peninsula (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). - Esperiana Memoir 5:172-241.	209
Somalia		Walsingham Thomas de Grey & Hampson G. F. 1896. On moths collected at Aden and in Somaliland. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1896(1):257-283, pl. 10.	260
South Africa	KwaZulu-Natal	Hampson G. F. 1910e. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). X. Noctuidae. - — 10:i-xix, 1-829.	473
Tanzania			NHMO
Tanzania	Zanzibar	Rebel H. 1907a. Lepidopteren aus Südarabien und von der Insel Sokotra. - Denkschriften der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 71(2):31-130, pl. 1.	90 (as selenampha)
Uganda	Ssese Islands	Grünberg K. 1910a. Zur Kenntnis der Lepidopterenfauna der Sesse-Inseln im Victoria Nyanza. - Sitzungsberichten der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1910(3):146-181.	159 (as annulata)
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.	583
Yemen	Socotra	Rebel H. 1907a. Lepidopteren aus Südarabien und von der Insel Sokotra. - Denkschriften der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 71(2):31-130, pl. 1.	89 (as selenampha)
Yemen		Walsingham Thomas de Grey & Hampson G. F. 1896. On moths collected at Aden and in Somaliland. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1896(1):257-283, pl. 10.	260
Zambia		Hampson G. F. 1910c. Zoological collections from Northern Rhodesia and adjacent territories: Lepidoptera Phalaenae. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1910(2):388-510, pls 36-41.	406
Zimbabwe		Hampson G. F. 1910e. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). X. Noctuidae. - — 10:i-xix, 1-829.	473

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Euphorbiaceae	Croton sp.	Kenya	Gardner J. C. M. 1957. An annotated list of East African forest insects. - — :1-47.	35
Poaceae	Triticum vulgare	Angola	Pinhey E. C. G. 1975. Moths of southern Africa. Descriptions and colour illustrations of 1183 species. - — :i-iv, 1-273, pls 1-63.	234
Euphorbiaceae	Croton sp.	East Africa	Sevastopulo D. G. 1976. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). - Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society 35(311):94-100; (313) 177-195.	188
Euphorbiaceae	Croton sylvaticus	South Africa	Platt E. E. 1921. List of foodplants of some South African lepidopterous larvae. - South African Journal of Natural History 3(1):65-138.	76