Acontia apatelia (Swinhoe, 1907)

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FAMILY Noctuidae
SUBFAMILY Acontiinae
GENUS Acontia
SPECIES apatelia
AUTHOR(Swinhoe, 1907)
ORIGINAL COMBINATIONTarache apatelia, nov.
TYPE LOCALITY[Angola], W Africa, Bihé.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES Latitude: -12°29'0" Longitude: 17°0'0"
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) Holotype ♀, BMNH.
STATUS Species
PUBLICATION Swinhoe C. 1907a. New eastern, Australian, and African Heterocera. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 19(109):49-56.
PAGINATION 53-54

Species pictures

Species Distribution

COUNTRY PROVINCE/STATE PUBLICATION PAGE
Angola   Swinhoe C. 1907a. New eastern, Australian, and African Heterocera. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 19(109):49-56. 54
Cameroon   Hacker H. H., Legrain A. & Fibiger M. 2008. Revision of the genus Acontia Ochsenheimer, 1816 and the tribus Acontiini Guenée, 1841 (Old World) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Acontiinae). - Esperiana 14:7-533, pls 1-38. 114
Ethiopia   Berio E. 1944. Missione biologica Sagan-Omo diretta dal Prof. E. Zavattari. Lepidoptera Agaristidae e Noctuidae. - Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 23:74-79. 78
Kenya   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. 744
Somalia   Berio E. 1985b. I nottuidi raccolti in Somalia del Prof. Simonetta nel 1978-79, con descrizione di nuovi taxa. - Contributi faunistici ed ecologici, Università di Camerino 1:5-39. 18
Sudan   Wiltshire E. P. 1973. Middle East Lepidoptera: XXXI. A new Clytie species, a new Metophonrhis subspecies, and other noctuid records from the Sudan. - Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft 63:42-48, pl. 4. 43

Host Plants

FAMILY SPECIES COUNTRY PUBLICATIONPAGE
Malvaceae Gossypium 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
Fabaceae Indigofera sp. Kenya Townsend A. L. H. 1942. Further notes (No. 3) on the early stages of Heterocera bred in the Nakuru District. - Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 42(4-5):197-219. 212 (as Indigophora)

*   Description of the larva in A. L. H. Townsend (1942: 212-213).