. British journal of entomology and natural history. Natural history; Entomology. HR. J. I'.NI. NAT. I IIS I., 7: IW4 MCZ LIBRARY PARDASENA VIRGULANA (MABILLE,) o Q (LEPIDOPTERA: N OCT HI DAK), A SPK( lis NOT PREVIOUSLY FOUND IN THE WILD IN BRUMS Martin R. Honey Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, I ond and Mark Sterling 9 Upper Heath Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire A LI 4DN. On 1992 Mark Sterling joined John Phillips and David Young on a trip to search for Gortyna borelii lunata (Frey.) at a site on the edge of Hamford Water near Thorpe le Soken in Essex
. British journal of entomology and natural history. Natural history; Entomology. HR. J. I'.NI. NAT. I IIS I., 7: IW4 MCZ LIBRARY PARDASENA VIRGULANA (MABILLE,) o Q (LEPIDOPTERA: N OCT HI DAK), A SPK( lis NOT PREVIOUSLY FOUND IN THE WILD IN BRUMS Martin R. Honey Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, I ond and Mark Sterling 9 Upper Heath Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire A LI 4DN. On 1992 Mark Sterling joined John Phillips and David Young on a trip to search for Gortyna borelii lunata (Frey.) at a site on the edge of Hamford Water near Thorpe le Soken in Essex. A number of lights were run at the site, including a 15-watt actinic, which attracted a small noctuid which was initially misidentified as Nycteola revayana (Scop.). On closer inspection it had several unusual features, including bright white hind wings and hind legs. The specimen was therefore taken to the Natural History Museum where it was determined by Martin Honey as a female Pardasena virgulana (Mabille). This species was originally described by Mabille (1880: xvii) as Sarrothripa virgulana and has also been known as Giaura nigriscripta Hampson. The species is listed by Hampson (1912: 245) and Gaede (1935: 181) as occurring in South and East Africa and Madagascar but there are specimens in the Natural History Museum collection from most tropical and non-tropical areas of Africa, including North Africa and certain Middle Eastern States, Cameroun, Comoro Islands, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Southern Yemen, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. There is little published information on the natural foodplants of this species but there are specimens in the Natural History Museum collections reared from pigeon pea, Cajanus cajan (L.) (Leguminosae), and Lantana, Lantana camara (L.) (Verbenaceae). Larvae have also been previously imported into Britain on okra, Abelmoschus escultentus
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