Hypena fumidalis Zeller, 1852 COMMON NAME(S): Streaked Snout. SYNONYM(S): Hypena abyssinialis Guenée, 1854; Hypena ignotalis Walker, 1859a; Hypena dispunctalis Walker, 1866a. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Bahrain, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Oman, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kafue, in Lusaka Province; Mbala, in Northern Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Lantana camara, a Verbenaceae invasive plant species is reported as host plant of the taxon in the United Arab Emirates (Fibiger & Legrain, 2009). The same plant species is also repoted as host plant in African countries (Gardner, 1941). The African Moths (2019) webpage, on the other hand, also includes the Verbenaceae species Lantana indica Roxb. as a larval foodplant of the taxon. SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Fibiger & Legrain 2009; Pinhey 1975; Gardner 1941; Hacker 2021.

Published as part of Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), pp. 1-503 in Zootaxa 5354 (1) on page 356, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434