Ctenoplusia limbirena (Guenée, 1852b) COMMON NAME(S): Silver U-Tail, Scar Bank Gem. SYNONYM(S): None. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Bali, Botswana, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, China, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Great Britain, Himalayas, India, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, New Guinea, New Zealand, Oman, Philippines, Portugal, Réunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena _ Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Spain (Canary Islands), Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Taiwan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Tanzania, Timor, United Kingdom, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Petauke, in Eastern Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Geranium sp. (Geraniaceae) and Solanum sp. (Solanaceae) reported as larval food plants of the taxon in Madagascar; Verbascum sp. (Scrophulariaceae) is the plant host in Saint Helena. Elsewhere in Africa the larval foodplnts include: Nicotiana sp., Solanum sp., and Nicotiana tabacum L. in the plant family Solanaceae; Salvia sp. (Lamiaceae); Agave sisalana Perrine (Asparagaceae), Arachis hypogaea L. and Phaseolus sp. in the plant family Fabaceae; Bidens pilosa L., Cineraria sp., and Lactuca sativa L. in the plant family Asteraceae; Eucalyptus saligna Sm. (Myrtaceae), Gossypium sp. (Malvaceae), and Pinus radiata D.Don (Pinaceae). The wasp, Enicospilus dubius (Tosquinet) (Ichneumonidae), is the parasitoid of the taxon in South Africa (Rousse & van Noort 2014) and Enicospilus mauritii (Saussure) (Ichneumonidae) is a parasitoid of the taxon elsewhere in an unnamed African country (Rousse & Villemant 2012). SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Kopij 2006; Pinhey 1975; Rousse & van Noort 2014; Rousse & Villemant 2012.

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