Zebronia phenice ( Cramer, 1780 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 118

Zebronia phenice ( Cramer, 1780)

COMMON NAME (S): Zebra pyrale. SYNONYM(S): Pyralis perspicalis Ḩbner, 1811; Zebronia foederalis Ḩbner, 1825; Spilomela phenicealis Guenée, 1854 ; Spilomela podalirialis Guenée, 1854 ; Zebronia lathurusalis Walker, 1859d ; Spilomela trivirgalis Mabille, 1880c ; Phakellura imparivirgalis Mabille, 1881 ; Zebronia mayottensis Pagenstecher, 1907 ; Zebronia botydis Strand, 1915a .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, France,

Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia , Nigeria, Réunion,

Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka [Latitude -15.35993; Longitude 28.4456], Kafue and Chilanga, in Lusaka Province; Kabompo, in

Northwestern Province; Petauke and Chipata, in Eastern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include: one Rhamnaceae species ( Ziziphus mauritiana Lam. ), one Bignoniaceae species ( Spathodea campanulate P.Beauv. ) and one Poaceae species ( Stenotaphrum sp. ) in the Réunion and one Bignoniaceae species ( Tecoma sp. ) in Mauritius. The African Moths (2019) lists the following as larval foodplants of the taxon; Seven Bignoniaceae species (i.e. Tecoma stans (L.) Juss. ex Kunth,

Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth. , K. africana subsp moosa (Sprague) Bidgood & Verdc., Markhamia platycalyx , Stereospermum sp. , Spathodea nilotica Seem. and Tabebuia pallida (Lindl.) Miers ), one

Malvaceae species ( Gossypium sp. ) and one Euphorbiaceae species ( Ricinus communis L.).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Guillermet 2009; Hampson 1910c; Martiré & Rochat 2008; Scan bugs Organization 2019a; Vinson 1938.