Athletes semialba ( Sonthonnax, 1904 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 145

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scientific name	Athletes semialba ( Sonthonnax, 1904 )
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Athletes semialba ( Sonthonnax, 1904) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Saturniid or Edible caterpillars (= Finamiunga, in Bemba, a local language in Zambia). SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia , Rwanda, Tanzania , Zambia , Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Luapula and Northern Provinces ; Lusaka , in Lusaka Province; Kopa, in Muchinga Province ; Kasempa, in Northwestern Province .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: two Fabaceae species ( Vachellia xanthophloea (Benth.) P.J.H.Hurter and A. melanoxylon R.Br. ) in the Tanzania; one Fabaceae subspecies ( Acacia polyacantha subsp. c ampylacantha

(A.Rich.) Brenan) in the Democratic Republic of Congo; two ( Brachystegia spiciformis Benth. and

Julbernardia globiflora (Benth.) Troupin ) and one Fabaceae species ( Cassia sp. ) in unnamed countries in Africa . No specific host plants for the taxon are known in Zambia. The African Moths (2019) webpage simply lists the following species of plants as hosts of the taxon in the countries listed above; three

Fabaceae species ( Acacia polyacantha Willd. , A. xanthophloea Benth. and Acacia melanoxylon R.Br. ),

three Fabaceae species ( Brachystegia spiciformis Benth. and Julbernardia globiflora (Benth.) Troupin )

and Cassia sp.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Gardner 1957; Pinhey 1972b; Thiry 1980.

Genus Aurivillius Packard, 1902 View in CoL