Honeyania ragusana (Freyer, 1844)

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 311

Honeyania ragusana (Freyer, 1844)

COMMON NAME (S): Boletobiine Moth.

SYNONYM(S): Anthophila cinerina Ghiliani, 1854 ; Thalpochares dividens Lucas, 1892 ; Eublemma polygramma Hampson, 1894 ; Thalpochares psilogramma Lederer, 1855 ; Hypena quinquelinealis Moore, 1877 ; Porphyrinia ragusanoides Berio, 1954 ; Anthophila virginea Guenée, 1852b .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Burkina Faso, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritania, Namibia , Nigeria, Oman, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

NOTE:This species is also found in Australasia: Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia, New Hebrides; Oriental:Andamans, Bhutan, India, Indonesia (Java), Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Taiwan; Palaearctic: Albania, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Syria .

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include a yet to be identified cotton or Gossypium sp. (Malvaceae) .

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hacker 2019.

Genus Hypercodia Hampson, 1910e