Pericyma mendax

Pericyma mendax
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Subfamily: Catocalinae
Genus: Pericyma
Species: P. mendax
Binomial name
Pericyma mendax
(Walker, 1858)
Synonyms
  • Alamis mendax Walker, 1858
  • Dugaria cilipes Walker, 1858
  • Homoptera delineosa Walker, 1858
  • Homoptera disjuncta Walker, 1865

Pericyma mendax is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found most countries in subtropical Africa south of the Sahara, in Cape Verde, Mauritius, La Réunion and Madagascar.[1]

It has a wingspan of approx. 40mm. Host plants of the larvae are Acacia mearnsii[2] and Acacia sp.[3] Fabaceae

Referencences

  1. afromoths.net
  2. Martiré & Rochat, 2008. Les papillons de La Réunion et leurs chenilles, p.399
  3. Hacker, Fibiger, & Schreier, 2007. Macrosenta purpurascens spec. nov., eine neue Notodontidae-Art aus Yemen (Lepidoptera). - Esperiana Memoir 3:341–344.

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