Zebronia phenice ( Cramer, 1780 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 118

Zebronia phenice ( Cramer, 1780)

COMMON NAME(S): Zebra pyrale.

SYNONYM(S): Pyralis perspicalis Ḩbner, 1811; Zebronia foederalis Ḩbner, 1825; Spilomela phenicealis Guenée, 1854 ; Spilomela podalirialis Guenée, 1854 ; Zebronia lathurusalis Walker, 1859d ; Spilomela trivirgalis Mabille, 1880c ; Phakellura imparivirgalis Mabille, 1881 ; Zebronia mayottensis Pagenstecher, 1907 ; Zebronia botydis Strand, 1915a .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, France, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka [Latitude -15.35993; Longitude 28.4456], Kafue and Chilanga, in Lusaka Province; Kabompo, in Northwestern Province; Petauke and Chipata, in Eastern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include: one Rhamnaceae species ( Ziziphus mauritiana Lam. ), one Bignoniaceae species ( Spathodea campanulate P.Beauv. ) and one Poaceae species ( Stenotaphrum sp. ) in the Réunion and one Bignoniaceae species ( Tecoma sp. ) in Mauritius. The African Moths (2019) lists the following as larval foodplants of the taxon; Seven Bignoniaceae species (i.e. Tecoma stans (L.) Juss. ex Kunth, Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth. , K. africana subsp moosa (Sprague) Bidgood & Verdc., Markhamia platycalyx , Stereospermum sp. , Spathodea nilotica Seem. and Tabebuia pallida (Lindl.) Miers ), one Malvaceae species ( Gossypium sp. ) and one Euphorbiaceae species ( Ricinus communis L.).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Guillermet 2009; Hampson 1910c; Martiré & Rochat 2008; Scan bugs Organization 2019a; Vinson 1938.