Strigocossus moderata ( Walker, 1856a )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 47

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
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scientific name	Strigocossus moderata ( Walker, 1856a )
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COMMON NAME (S): Bristly Goat.

SYNONYM(S): Xyleutes leucopteris Houlbert, 1916 ; Xyleutes vosseleri Gaede, 1930 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larvae foodplants include two yet to be identified Fabaceae species ( Cassia sp. and Pterolobium sp. ).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Yakovlev 2011.