Nephele funebris ( Fabricius, 1793 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 183

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
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scientific name	Nephele funebris ( Fabricius, 1793 )
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Nephele funebris ( Fabricius, 1793) View in CoL *

COMMON NAME (S): Feneral Nephele Hawkmoth or Feneral Nephele .

SYNONYM(S): Nephele infernalis Kirby, 1877b ; Zonilia viridescens Walker, 1856b .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mayotte, Mozambique, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka and Kafue, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include three Apocynaceae species ( Landolphia owariensis P.Beauv. , L. calabarica (Stapf) E.A.Bruce and Landolphia hirsuta (Hua) Pichon ) ( African Moths 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022.