Hippotion roseipennis ( Butler, 1882a )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 180-181

Hippotion roseipennis ( Butler, 1882a) *

COMMON NAME (S): Small Striped Hawk.

SYNONYM(S): Hippotion exclamationis Fawcett, 1915 ; Hippotion austrinum Jordan, 1930 ; Hippotion robur Jordan, 1938 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, S„o Tomé and Príncipe, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: University of Zambia (Lusaka) ** and Kafue, both localities in Lusaka Province .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: one Vitaceae species ( Cissus sp. ) in South Africa ( van den Berg et al. 1975) and one Vitaceae species ( Cissus quadrangularis L.) in an unnamed African country or countries ( African Moths 2019). There are no larval foodplants reported for Zambian in the literature.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; D’Abrera 1987; De Prins & De Prins 2022; van den Berg et al. 1975.