Leucania phaea Hampson, 1902 COMMON NAME(S): Owlet Moth, Underwing or Noctuid moth. SYNONYM(S): Cirphis leucosticha Hampson, 1905a. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Banks of Loangwa [now Luangwa] River in Loangwa [now Luangwa] valley, Eastern Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include sugarcane, Saccharum pofficinarum (Poaceae). The following species from the Diptera, family Tachinidae,are parasitoids of the taxon; Aplomya sp., Cuphocera argyrocephala Macquart, C. ruficornis (Macquart), Linnaemya angulicornis (Speiser), Pales sp. and Pseudogonia rufifrons (Wiedemann) (Prinsloo & Uys 2015). In addition, Netelia sp. from the wasp family Ichneumonidae, is also a parasitoid of the taxon. SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.

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 408, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434