Leucania curvula Walker, 1856

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FAMILY Noctuidae
SUBFAMILY Hadeninae
GENUS Leucania
SPECIES curvula
AUTHORWalker, 1856
ORIGINAL COMBINATIONLeucania curvula
TYPE LOCALITY[Democratic Republic of Congo], Congo, leg. J. Richardson.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES /
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) 4 Syntypes, BMNH.
STATUS Species
PUBLICATION Walker F. 1856c. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part IX.- Noctuidae. - — 9:i-iv, 1-252.
PAGINATION 102

Species pictures

Synonyms

NAME AUTHOR STATUS
pseudoloreyi Rungs, 1953 Synonym of species

Species Distribution

COUNTRY PROVINCE/STATE PUBLICATION PAGE
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the   Walker F. 1856c. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part IX.- Noctuidae. - — 9:i-iv, 1-252. 102
Ghana     J. Jörpeland
Kenya   Berio E. 1979. I Noctuidae del Kenya della collezione Alberto Ancillotto (Lepidoptera). - Bollettino del Museo civico di Storia naturale di Verona 5 (1978):475-491. 481 (as pseudoloreyi)
Madagascar   Rungs Ch. 1953b. Le complexe de Leucania loreyi auct. nec Dup. (Lep. Phalaenidae). - Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 58(9):138-141. 140 (as pseudoloreyi)
Mauritius   Ganeshan S. & Rajabalee A. 1998. The Mythimna spp. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) complex on sugarcane in Mauritius. - Proceedings of the South African Sugar Technology Association 70:15-17. 15
Namibia   Hacker H. H. 2004b. Nolidae and Noctuidae (excluding Catocalinae: Audeini and Tachosini) (Lepidoptera). - In: Mey, Z. (Ed.) The Lepidoptera of the Brandberg Massif in Namibia. - Esperiana Memoir 1:261-304. 285 (as pseudoloreyi)
Réunion   Viette P. 1958d. Microlépidoptères nouveaux de Madagascar. - Revue française d'Entomologie (N. S.) 25(2):111-124. 41 (as pseudoloreyi)
South Africa Western 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. 481
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. 482
South Africa Limpopo   St. Schellhorn
Tanzania     MSNM (as pseudoloreyi)

Host Plants

FAMILY SPECIES COUNTRY PUBLICATIONPAGE
Poaceae Saccharum officinarum Réunion Martiré D. & Rochat J. 2008. Les papillons de La Réunion et leurs chenilles. - — :1-496. 460 (as pseudoloreyi)