Euchloron megaera ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 177-178

Euchloron megaera ( Linnaeus, 1758)

COMMON NAME (S): Verdant hawkmoth or Verdant Hawk.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Central African Republic, South Africa, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Chingola, in Copperbelt Province ; Lusaka and Kafue, in Lusaka Province ; Livingstone, in Southern Province .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: two Vitaceae species ( Cissus arguta Hook.f. and Cissus petiolata Hook.f. ) in Côte d’Ivoire ( Vuattoux et al. 1989); one Fabaceae species ( Vigna sp. ) in South Africa ( Fawcett 1902)

and three Vitaceae species ( Parthenocissus quinquefolia (L.) Planch., Ampelopsis sp. and Cissus sp. ) in unnamed African country or countries ( Aurivillius 1925 ; MacNulty 1967; Martiré & Rochat 2008).

The following Vitaceae species are listed as larval foodplants of the taxon by the African Moths (2019) webpage without specifying countries in Africa where they are found; ( Vigna sp. , Cissus trothae Gilg & M.Brandt , C. petiolata Hook.f. , C. arguta Hook.f. , Vitis vinifera L. , Parthenocissus quinquefolia (L.) Planch. and Rhoicissus tridentata (L.f.) Wild & R.B.Drumm.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Aurivillius 1925 ; D’Abrera 1987; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Fawcett 1902; MacNulty 1967; Martiré & Rochat 2008; Vuattoux et al. 1989.

Genus Hippotion H̡bner, 1819