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

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1

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scientific name

Zebronia phenice ( Cramer, 1780 )
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Zebronia phenice ( Cramer, 1780) View in CoL

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

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Crambidae

Genus

Zebronia

Loc

Zebronia phenice ( Cramer, 1780 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De 2023
2023
Loc

Zebronia botydis

Strand 1915
1915
Loc

Zebronia mayottensis

Pagenstecher 1907
1907
Loc

Phakellura imparivirgalis

Mabille 1881
1881
Loc

Spilomela trivirgalis

Mabille 1880
1880
Loc

Zebronia lathurusalis

Walker 1859
1859
Loc

Spilomela phenicealis Guenée, 1854

Guenee 1854
1854
Loc

Spilomela podalirialis Guenée, 1854

Guenee 1854
1854
Loc

Zebronia foederalis

Hubner 1827
1827
Loc

Pyralis perspicalis

Hübner 1796
1796
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