Poliobotys ablactalis ( Walker, 1859c )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 113

Poliobotys ablactalis ( Walker, 1859c)

COMMON NAME(S): Pearl Grey.

SYNONYM(S): Poliobotys borbonica Guillermet, 2008 ; Botys murinalis Pagenstecher, 1885 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Australia, Botswana, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Hong Kong, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Réunion, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants for the taxoninclude: one Bignoniaceae species ( Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth. ) in Kenya ; one Bignoniaceaespecies ( Spathodea campanulate P.Beauv. ) in the Democratic Republic of Congo; and one Brassicaceae species ( Brassica sp. ) in Uganda. One Lamiaceae species ( Gmelina arborea Roxb. ) and three Bignoniaceae species ( Kigelia africana ( Lam.) Benth , Podranea brycei (N.E.Br.) Sprague and Spathodea campanulata P.Beauv. are larval foodplants of the taxon ( African Moths 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Gardner, 1957; Ghesquière, 1942; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1; Nyiira, 1973.