Cortyta canescens canescens Walker, 1858

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FAMILY	Erebidae
SUBFAMILY	Erebinae
GENUS	Cortyta
SPECIES	canescens
SUBSPECIES	canescens
AUTHOR	Walker, 1858
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Cortyta canescens
TYPE LOCALITY	[South Africa], Caffraria, leg. M. Becker.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Holotype ♀, BMNH.
STATUS	Subspecies
PUBLICATION	Walker F. 1858b. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XIII.- Noctuidae. - — 13 (1857):i-iv, 983-1236.
PAGINATION	1077

Species pictures

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Namibia		Grünberg K. 1910c. Lepidoptera. - In: Schultze L.: Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise in westlichen und zentralen Südafrika. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. - Denkschriften der medizinisch naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 16(4):1-370, pls 1-12 [Chapter pagination: 91-146].	99
South Africa		Walker F. 1858b. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XIII.- Noctuidae. - — 13 (1857):i-iv, 983-1236.	1077
South Africa	KwaZulu-Natal	Pinhey E. C. G. 1975. Moths of southern Africa. Descriptions and colour illustrations of 1183 species. - — :i-iv, 1-273, pls 1-63.	219
South Africa	Eastern Cape	Hacker H. H. 2019b. Families Nolidae Bruand 1846, Erebidae Leach, 1815, Euteliidae Grote, 1882 and Noctuidae Latreille, (Noctuoidea). - In: Mey W. & Krüger M. (Eds), The Lepidoptera fauna of a crater valley in the Great Escarpment of South Africa: The Asante Sana Project. - Esperiana Memoir 8:429-537.	454
Yemen		Hampson G. F. 1902a. The moths of South Africa (Part II). - Annals of the South African Museum 2(10):255-446.	323
Zimbabwe		Pinhey E. C. G. 1975. Moths of southern Africa. Descriptions and colour illustrations of 1183 species. - — :i-iv, 1-273, pls 1-63.	219

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Fabaceae	Acacia xanthophloea	Kenya	Agassiz D. J. L. & Harper D. M. 2009. The Macrolepidoptera fauna of Acacia in the Kenyan Rift Valley (Part 1). - Tropical Lepidoptera Research 19(1):4-8.	7