Saenura flava Wallengren, 1860

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 289-290

Saenura flava Wallengren, 1860

COMMON NAME (S): Tiger Moth. SYNONYM(S): Diacrisia oriens Rothschild, 1917b . IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia , South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include two Fabaceae species ( Cassia sp. and Tephrosia sp. ), two Asteraceae species ( Senecio sp. and Tagetes sp. ), one Smilacaceae species ( Smilax sp. ), one Liliaceae species ( Lilium sp. ), one

Asparagaceae species ( Ornithogalum sp. ) and one Proteaceae species ( Protea sp. ) ( Pinhey 1975). The following are indicated as larval foodplants of the taxon ( African Moths 2019): one Asteraceae species

( Tagetes erecta L.), four Fabaceae species ( Senna occidentalis (L.) Link, S. multiglandulosa (Jacq.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby , Tephrosia sp. and Acacia mearnsii De Wild. ), one Asparagaceae species ( Albuca virens (Lindl.) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt ), one Proteaceae species ( Protea caffra Meisn. ), one Rosaceae species ( Rubus pinnatus Willd. ), one Smilacaceae species ( Smilax sp. ) and one Verbenaceae species ( Lantana sp. ).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Kopij 2006; Pinhey 1975.

Genus Secusio Walker, 1854b