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Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858)

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Higher taxa: Erebidae (family)/  Erebinae (subfamily)/  Pandesmini (tribe)/  Pandesma (genus)/ 
Status:Accepted
Authorship:(Walker, 1858)
Citation:Thria robusta
Original genus:Thria
Publication:Walker F. 1858b. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XIII.– Noctuidae.
Journal:—
Volume:13 (1857)
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Pagination:1112
URL:https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39337109
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Pandesma robusta (1)
Scientific name TypeStatus Gender Museum Description Country Locality Publication URL
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Holotype ♂ NHMUK Holotype ♂, NHMUK. South Africa South Africa, leg. Pamplin.
Distribution note:

Oriental: India, Pakistan; Palaearctic: Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt (Sinai), Greece, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Italy, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan.

Scientific name Country Province Publication URL
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Algeria Hoggar and Tassili Rothschild W. 1915a. On the Lepidoptera collected in 1913–1914 by Herr Geyr von Schweppenburg on a journey to the Hoggar Mountains (Sahara). page 256 (as terrigena)
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Botswana page TMSA
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Cabo Verde Fogo Traub B. & Bauer E. 1982. Zur Macro-Lepidopteren-Fauna der Kapverdische Inseln. – In: Lobin W., Ergebnisse des 1. Symposiums "Fauna und Flora der Kapverdischen Inseln". page 228
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Cabo Verde Santiago Traub B. & Bauer E. 1982. Zur Macro-Lepidopteren-Fauna der Kapverdische Inseln. – In: Lobin W., Ergebnisse des 1. Symposiums "Fauna und Flora der Kapverdischen Inseln". page 228
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Cabo Verde Santo Antão Traub B. & Bauer E. 1982. Zur Macro-Lepidopteren-Fauna der Kapverdische Inseln. – In: Lobin W., Ergebnisse des 1. Symposiums "Fauna und Flora der Kapverdischen Inseln". page 228
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Djibouti Laporte B. 1974c. Noctuidae du Territoire français des Afars et des Issas (Lep.). page 94
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Ethiopia Kravchenko V. D., Matov A., Speidel W., Rybalov L., Seyoum E., Beredin S., Negeri M., Witt T., Mooser J. & Müller G. C. 2010. Contributions to the Lepidoptera Fauna of Ethiopia: Catocaline Taxa (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). page 47
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Gambia page R. Goff
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Kenya Berio E. 1979. I Noctuidae del Kenya della collezione Alberto Ancillotto (Lepidoptera). page 490
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Lesotho Kopij G. 2006. Lepidoptera fauna of Lesotho. page 170
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Mauritania Hacker H. H., Schreier H.-P. & Aistleitner E. 2010. Noctuidae of Cape Verde Islands (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). page 24
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Namibia Wallengren H. D. J. 1863a. Lepidopterologische Mittheilungen. III. page 149 (as opposita)
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Niger Rothschild W. 1921a. Captain Angus Buchanan's Aïr expedition. V. On the Lepidoptera collected by Captain A. Buchanan in northern Nigeria and the southern Sahara in 1919–1920. page 168
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Oman Wiltshire E. P. 1977b. The scientific results of the Oman flora and fauna survey 1975. Lepidoptera: Part I Families Cossidae, Pyralidae, Geometridae, Sphingidae, Arctiidae, Lymantriidae and Noctuidae. Part II A list of further Lepidoptera-Heterocera from Oman. Part III Pyral... page 175
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Saint Helena Karisch T. 2001b. Zur Schmetterlingsfauna von St. Helena. 1. Teil: Grossschmetterlinge (Insecta: Lepidoptera). page 414
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Saudi Arabia Kiriakoff S. G. 1960e. Lépidoptères Hétérocères (partim) récoltés par P. Lippens en Jordanie et en Arabie Séoudite. page 9
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Senegal Berio E. 1969b. Le Parc National du Niokolo-Koba (Sénégal). Fasc. III. XXIII. Lepidoptera. Noctuidae. page 370
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Somalia Berio E. 1985b. I nottuidi raccolti in Somalia del Prof. Simonetta nel 1978–79, con descrizione di nuovi taxa. page 33
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) South Africa Eastern Cape Möschler H. B. 1884. Beiträge zur Schmetterlings-fauna des Kaffernlandes. page 300
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) South Africa Free State Staude H. S., Picker M. & Griffiths Ch. 2023. Southern African moths & their caterpillars. page 356 (map)
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) South Africa Gauteng Staude H. S., Picker M. & Griffiths Ch. 2023. Southern African moths & their caterpillars. page 356 (map)
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) South Africa Limpopo Staude H. S., Picker M. & Griffiths Ch. 2023. Southern African moths & their caterpillars. page 356 (map)
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) South Africa Mpumalanga Staude H. S., Picker M. & Griffiths Ch. 2023. Southern African moths & their caterpillars. page 356 (map)
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) South Africa North-West Staude H. S., Picker M. & Griffiths Ch. 2023. Southern African moths & their caterpillars. page 356 (map)
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) South Africa Northern Cape Staude H. S., Picker M. & Griffiths Ch. 2023. Southern African moths & their caterpillars. page 356 (map)
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) South Africa Western Cape Staude H. S., Picker M. & Griffiths Ch. 2023. Southern African moths & their caterpillars. page 356
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) South Africa Walker F. 1858b. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XIII.– Noctuidae. page 1112
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Sudan Hacker H. H., Schreier H.-P. & Aistleitner E. 2010. Noctuidae of Cape Verde Islands (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). page 24
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Tanzania page NHMUK (genitalia slide 3901♂)
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) United Arab Emirates Legrain A. & Wiltshire E. P. 1998. Provisional checklist of the Macro-Heterocera (Lepidoptera) of the UAE. page 8
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Western Sahara Rungs Ch. 1992. Premier aperçu sur la faune des lépidoptères du Sahara occidental. page 368
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Yemen Hacker H. H., Aulombard F., Bischof A., Bittermann J., Fibiger M. & Schreier H.-P. 2001. Lepidoptera of Yemen Arab Republic, collected during three expeditions in 1996, 1998 and 2000. page 615
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Zimbabwe page TMSA
Plant note:

Notes on the biology in C. Dumont (1930a: 694–695).

Dumont C. 1930a. Note biologique sur Pericyma acrosticta Püng. (Lep. Catocalinae).
Scientific name Plant Plant Family Country Publication URL
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Acacia sp. Fabaceae United Arab Emirates Fibiger M. & Legrain A. 2009. Order Lepidoptera, superfamily Noctuoidea. – In: van Harten, A. (ed.) Arthropod fauna of the UAE. page 527
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Albizia lebbeck Fabaceae United Arab Emirates Fibiger M. & Legrain A. 2009. Order Lepidoptera, superfamily Noctuoidea. – In: van Harten, A. (ed.) Arthropod fauna of the UAE. page 527
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Calligonum comosum Polygonaceae Tunisia Dumont C. 1930a. Note biologique sur Pericyma acrosticta Püng. (Lep. Catocalinae). page 694 (as terrigena)
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Populus euphratica Salicaceae Hacker H. H., Schreier H.-P. & Aistleitner E. 2010. Noctuidae of Cape Verde Islands (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). page 24
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Senegalia sp. Fabaceae South Africa Staude H. S., Picker M. & Griffiths Ch. 2023. Southern African moths & their caterpillars. page 356
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Undefined polyphagous Undefined 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.). page 312
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Vachellia sp. Fabaceae South Africa Staude H. S., Picker M. & Griffiths Ch. 2023. Southern African moths & their caterpillars. page 356
Pandesma robusta (Walker, 1858) Vachellia tortilis Fabaceae Kenya Agassiz D. J. L. & Harper D. M. 2009. The Macrolepidoptera fauna of Acacia in the Kenyan Rift Valley (Part 1). page 7
Scientific name Parasitoid Parasitoid Family Country Publication URL
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Scientific Name Authorship Rank Status Original Combination
Scientific Name Authorship Rank Status Original Combination
Pandesma anysa sensu auct. sensu auct. species Misapplied Pandesma anysa
Pandesma distincta Rothschild, 1920 Rothschild, 1920 species Synonym Pandesma distincta
Pandesma fugitiva (Walker, 1858) (Walker, 1858) species Synonym Cerbia fugitiva
Pandesma grandis (Staudinger, 1877) (Staudinger, 1877) species Synonym Pericyma grandis
Pandesma opposita Wallengren, 1863 Wallengren, 1863 species Synonym Pandesma opposita
Pandesma sennaarensis Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874 Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874 species Synonym Pandesma sennaarensis
Pandesma similata Moore, 1883 Moore, 1883 species Synonym Pandesma similata
Pandesma terrigena (Christoph, 1877) (Christoph, 1877) species Synonym Pericyma terrigena