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Achaea catella Guenée, 1852

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Higher taxa: Erebidae (family)/  Erebinae (subfamily)/  Poaphilini (tribe)/  Achaea (genus)/ 
Status:Accepted
Authorship:Guenée, 1852
Citation:Achaea Catella Gn.
Original genus:Achaea
Publication:Guenée A. M. 1852c. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. VII. Species général des Lépidoptères. Noctuélites. Tome III.
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Volume:7
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Pagination:247
URL:https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9747450
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Achaea catella (1)
Scientific name TypeStatus Gender Museum Description Country Locality Publication URL
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Lectotype ♂ MNHN Lectotype ♂, designated by P. Viette (1951a: 162), MNHN. Senegal Senegal. Viette P. 1951a. Sur quelques Noctuelles décrites par Guenée (1852–1854). page 247
GenBank Accession Number Publication
JF847875
JF847876
Distribution note:

Palaearctic: Egypt.

Scientific name Country Province Publication URL
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Angola Ladeiro J. M. 1956. Lepidópteros de Angola (estudio de uma colecção oferecida ao Museu Zoológico de Coimbra). page 158
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Botswana Hampson G. F. 1902a. The moths of South Africa (Part II). page 337
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Comoros Guillermet C. 2005d. Les Hétérocères ou papillons de nuit, de l'île de La Réunion. Volume 1. Famille des Noctuidae Quadrifides. page 206
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Katanga Berio E. 1965a. Le Catocaline Africane a tibie spinose del Museo di Tervuren. page 220
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Hampson G. F. 1902a. The moths of South Africa (Part II). page 337
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Congo, the Democratic Republic of the East Kasai Berio E. 1965a. Le Catocaline Africane a tibie spinose del Museo di Tervuren. page 220
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Kinshasa Berio E. 1965a. Le Catocaline Africane a tibie spinose del Museo di Tervuren. page 220
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Côte d'Ivoire Mabille P. 1890a. Voyage de M. Ch. Alluaud dans le territoire d'Assinie (Afrique occidentale) en juillet et août 1886, 4e mémoire; Lépidoptères, avec des notes sur quelques autres espèces d'Afrique (Rhopalocera et Heterocera). page 44 (as melicerta)
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Eritrea Hampson G. F. 1902a. The moths of South Africa (Part II). page 337
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Eswatini page TMSA
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Ethiopia Butler A. G. 1879e. Lepidoptera. – In: An account of the petrological, botanical and zoological collections made in Kerguelen's Land and Rodriguez during the Transit of Venus Expedition carried out by Order of Her Majesty's Government in the years 1874–75. page 541
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Gambia Druce H. 1887. Lepidoptera Heterocera. – In: Moloney A. C., Sketch of the forestry of West Africa with particular reference to its present principal commercial products. page 501 (as melicerta)
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Ghana Wagner M. R., Cobbinah J. R. & Bosu P. P. 2008. Forest entomology in West Tropical Africa; Forest insects of Ghana. Second Edition. page 37
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Kenya Hampson G. F. 1902a. The moths of South Africa (Part II). page 337
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Lesotho Kopij G. 2006. Lepidoptera fauna of Lesotho. page 162
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Madagascar Butler A. G. 1885d. On a collection of Lepidoptera made by Major J. W. Yerbury at or near Aden. page 498
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Malawi Hampson G. F. 1913c. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). XII. Noctuidae. page 535
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Mauritania Hacker H. H. & Hausmann A. 2010. Noctuidae collected by Karlheinz Politzar in Bogué, Mauritania (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). page 109
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Mauritius Viette P. 1957d. Lépidoptères (excepté les Tordeuses et les Géométrides). – In: La Faune entomologique de l'Ile de la Réunion. I. page 200
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Mauritius Rodrigues Butler A. G. 1879d. Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera from Madagascar, with notes on some of the forms already described. page 541
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Mozambique Goldbach G. 1993. Schmetterlingsarten aus dem Gebiet von Moatize/Moçambique (Lepidoptera). page 79
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Namibia Kopij G. 2014. Lepidoptera fauna of Namibia. I. Seasonal distribution of moths of the Koakoland (Mopane) Savanna in Ogongo, northern Namibia. page 123
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 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 166
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Nigeria Sharpe E. M. 1902. A list of Lepidoptera collected by Dr. Cuthbert Christy in Nigeria. page 107 (as melicerta)
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Oman Wiltshire E. P. 1985b. New Heterocera from Oman (with a revised list of the moths known from the Musandam Peninsula). page 45
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Réunion Guenée A. M. 1862. Lépidoptères. – In: Maillard, L., Notes sur l'île de la Réunion (Bourbon) (Annexe G). page 50
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Saint Helena Wollaston T. V. 1879. Notes on the Lepidoptera of St. Helena, with descriptions of new species. page 233 (as melicerta)
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Saudi Arabia Hampson G. F. 1913c. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). XII. Noctuidae. page 534
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Senegal Guenée A. M. 1852c. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. VII. Species général des Lépidoptères. Noctuélites. Tome III. page 247
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Seychelles La Digue De Prins W. & Mazzei P. 2016. Some faunistic notes on selected moth species (Lepidoptera) from the Seychelles. page 28
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Seychelles Silhouette Gerlach J. 1998b. Additions and corrections to the Silhouette species list. page 83
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Seychelles Cousine Lawrence J. M. 2005. The Lepidoptera of Cousine Island, Seychelles. page 95
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Seychelles Aride Bowler J., Bullock, I., Cadbury J., Gerlach J. & Hunter J. 1999. The ecology and conservation of Aride island, Seychelles. page 51
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Seychelles Curieuse Woods P. J. 2013. The Lepidoptera of Curieuse Island, Seychelles. page 63
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Seychelles Aldabra Gerlach J. & Matyot P. 2006. Lepidoptera of the Seychelles islands. page 76
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Seychelles Assomption Fryer J. C. F. 1912. The Lepidoptera of Seychelles and Aldabra, exclusive of the Orneodidae and Pterophoridae and of the Tortricina and Tineina. page 9 (as janata)
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Seychelles Mahé Joannis J. de 1894. Mission scientifique de Ch. Alluaud des îles Seychelles. page 433 (as melicerta)
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Seychelles Praslin Fletcher T. B. 1910a. Lepidoptera exclusive of the Tortricidae and Tineidae, with some remarks on their distribution and means of dispersal among the islands of the Indian Ocean. (The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905). page 274 (as melicerta)
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Somalia Walsingham Thomas de Grey & Hampson G. F. 1896. On moths collected at Aden and in Somaliland. page 264
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 South Africa Gauteng Hampson G. F. 1902a. The moths of South Africa (Part II). page 337
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 South Africa Western Cape page TMSA
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 South Africa Mpumalanga page TMSA
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 South Africa KwaZulu-Natal page TMSA
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 South Africa Free State page TMSA
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 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. page 453
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 South Africa Northern Cape page TMSA
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 South Sudan Strand E. 1914a. Neue Aberrationen der Noctuiden-Subfamilie Catocalinae. page 74 (as rufotincta)
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 South Sudan Strand E. 1914a. Neue Aberrationen der Noctuiden-Subfamilie Catocalinae. page 74 (as rufotincta)
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Sudan Hampson G. F. 1913c. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). XII. Noctuidae. page 534
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Tanzania Strand E. 1912i. Über Lepidoptera aus Mkatta und Morogoro in Deutsch Ost-Afrika, nebst Beiträgen zur Kenntnis afrikanischer Taragama-Arten. page 73
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Uganda Ssese Islands Grünberg K. 1910a. Zur Kenntnis der Lepidopterenfauna der Sesse-Inseln im Victoria Nyanza. page 160
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Uganda Hampson G. F. 1909c. Ruwenzori Expedition Reports. 11. Lepidoptera Heterocera. page 110
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 United Arab Emirates Legrain A. & Wiltshire E. P. 1998. Provisional checklist of the Macro-Heterocera (Lepidoptera) of the UAE. page 7
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Western Sahara Rungs Ch. 1992. Premier aperçu sur la faune des lépidoptères du Sahara occidental. page 369
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Yemen Butler A. G. 1885d. On a collection of Lepidoptera made by Major J. W. Yerbury at or near Aden. page 498
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Yemen Socotra Rebel H. 1907a. Lepidopteren aus Südarabien und von der Insel Sokotra. page 95
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Zambia Strand E. 1909h. Schmetterlinge aus dem Sambesi-Gebiet, gesammelt und dem Berliner Museum geschenkt von Herrn Franz Seiner. page 380
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Zimbabwe Hampson G. F. 1902a. The moths of South Africa (Part II). page 337
Plant note:

Description of the larva in A. L. H. Townsend (1938: 174–175).

Townsend A. L. H. 1938. Further notes on the early stages of Heterocera bred in the Nakuru District.
Scientific name Plant Plant Family Country Publication URL
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Afzelia africana Fabaceae Ghana Wagner M. R., Cobbinah J. R. & Bosu P. P. 2008. Forest entomology in West Tropical Africa; Forest insects of Ghana. Second Edition. page 37
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Bauhinia sp. Fabaceae South Africa Platt E. E. 1921. List of foodplants of some South African lepidopterous larvae. page 70
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Combretum aculeatum Combretaceae Senegal Risbec J. 1950. La fauna entomologique des cultures au Sénégal et au Soudan Français. page 320
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Eucalyptus camaldulensis Myrtaceae Austara O. & Jones T. 1971. Host list and distribution of lepidopterous defoliators of exotic softwoods in East Africa. page 404
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Eucalyptus camaldulensis Myrtaceae Sevastopulo D. G. 1976. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). page 190
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Eucalyptus sp. Myrtaceae Sevastopulo D. G. 1983. Species of Eucalyptus as food plants for Lepidoptera in East Africa. page 91
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Eucalyptus sp. Myrtaceae Madagascar Paulian R. & Viette P. 1956. Essai d'un catalogue biologique des Lépidoptères Hétérocères de Tananarive. page 238
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Euphorbia balsamifera Euphorbiaceae Senegal Risbec J. 1950. La fauna entomologique des cultures au Sénégal et au Soudan Français. page 320
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Euphorbia crotonoides Euphorbiaceae Sevastopulo D. G. 1976. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). page 189
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Euphorbia crotonoides Euphorbiaceae Kenya Townsend A. L. H. 1938. Further notes on the early stages of Heterocera bred in the Nakuru District. page 174
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Euphorbia hirta Euphorbiaceae Sevastopulo D. G. 1976. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). page 189
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Euphorbia pyrifolia Euphorbiaceae Seychelles Gerlach J. & Matyot P. 2006. Lepidoptera of the Seychelles islands. page 76
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Euphorbia scordiifolia Euphorbiaceae Sevastopulo D. G. 1976. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). page 189
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Euphorbia sp. Euphorbiaceae Austara O. & Jones T. 1971. Host list and distribution of lepidopterous defoliators of exotic softwoods in East Africa. page 404
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Euphorbia systyla Euphorbiaceae Walsingham Thomas de Grey & Hampson G. F. 1896. On moths collected at Aden and in Somaliland. page 264
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Ipomoea batatas Convolvulaceae Austara O. & Jones T. 1971. Host list and distribution of lepidopterous defoliators of exotic softwoods in East Africa. page 404
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Ipomoea batatas Convolvulaceae Sevastopulo D. G. 1976. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). page 189
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Lonchocarpus sp. Fabaceae Mauritania Hacker H. H. & Hausmann A. 2010. Noctuidae collected by Karlheinz Politzar in Bogué, Mauritania (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). page 109
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Pinus radiata Pinaceae Austara O. & Jones T. 1971. Host list and distribution of lepidopterous defoliators of exotic softwoods in East Africa. page 404
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Pinus radiata Pinaceae Sevastopulo D. G. 1976. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). page 190
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Ricinus communis Euphorbiaceae Sevastopulo D. G. 1976. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). page 189
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Ricinus communis Euphorbiaceae South Africa Platt E. E. 1921. List of foodplants of some South African lepidopterous larvae. page 91
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Ricinus sp. Euphorbiaceae Mauritania Hacker H. H. & Hausmann A. 2010. Noctuidae collected by Karlheinz Politzar in Bogué, Mauritania (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). page 109
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Ricinus sp. Euphorbiaceae Madagascar Paulian R. & Viette P. 1956. Essai d'un catalogue biologique des Lépidoptères Hétérocères de Tananarive. page 238
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Tamarindus sp. Fabaceae South Africa Pinhey E. C. G. 1975. Moths of southern Africa. Descriptions and colour illustrations of 1183 species. page 404
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Terminalia catappa Combretaceae Réunion Martiré D. & Rochat J. 2008. Les papillons de La Réunion et leurs chenilles. page 392
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Terminalia catappa Combretaceae Madagascar Paulian R. & Viette P. 1956. Essai d'un catalogue biologique des Lépidoptères Hétérocères de Tananarive. page 238
Achaea catella Guenée, 1852 Undefined Grasses Undefined Sevastopulo D. G. 1976. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). page 189
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Scientific Name Authorship Rank Status Original Combination
Scientific Name Authorship Rank Status Original Combination
Achaea catilla Butler, 1879 Butler, 1879 species Misapplied Achaea catilla
Achaea janata (sensu auct., nec Linnaeus, 1758) (sensu auct., nec Linnaeus, 1758) species Misapplied Geometra janata
Achaea medioalbida Strand, 1914 Strand, 1914 species Misapplied Achaea medioalbida
Achaea melicerta (sensu auct., nec Drury, 1773) (sensu auct., nec Drury, 1773) species Misapplied Noctua melicerta
Achaea nigrosuffusa Strand, 1914 Strand, 1914 species Misapplied Achaea nigrosuffusa
Achaea rufotincta Strand, 1914 Strand, 1914 species Misapplied Achaea rufotincta