Acronicta verbenata (Distant, 1898)

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FAMILY	Noctuidae
SUBFAMILY	Acronictinae
GENUS	Acronicta
SPECIES	verbenata
AUTHOR	(Distant, 1898)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Diphthera verbenata, sp. n.
TYPE LOCALITY	[South Africa, Mpumalanga], Transvaal, Barberton, leg. P. Rendall.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Holotype ♂, BMNH; Paratype 1♂, BMNH.
STATUS	Species
COMMENT	Transferred to Acronicta by H. Hacker; Diphthera is a Neotropical genus (see H. Hacker 2019b: 464).
PUBLICATION	Distant W. L. 1898b. On a collection of Heterocera made in the Transvaal. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 1(3):218-231.
PAGINATION	222

Species pictures

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Mozambique		Pinhey E. C. G. 1974. Some revised names in African Lepidoptera-Heterocera. - Arnoldia Rhodesia 6(40):1-35.	195
South Africa	Gauteng	Janse A. J. T. 1937-1939. The Moths of South Africa. Volume III. Cymatophoridae, Callidulidae and Noctuidae (Partim). - — 3:i-xv, 1-435, pls 1-46.	127
South Africa	Mpumalanga	Distant W. L. 1898b. On a collection of Heterocera made in the Transvaal. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 1(3):218-231.	222
South Africa	KwaZulu-Natal	Janse A. J. T. 1937-1939. The Moths of South Africa. Volume III. Cymatophoridae, Callidulidae and Noctuidae (Partim). - — 3:i-xv, 1-435, pls 1-46.	127
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.	464

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Peraceae	Clutia pulchella	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.	75