Latoia vivida ( Walker, 1865b )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 58-59

Latoia vivida ( Walker, 1865b)

COMMON NAME (S): Vivid Slug.

SYNONYM(S): Parasa arcuata Karsch, 1896c ; Parasa neumanni Karsch, 1896c .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia , Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda,

Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kafue, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): One Fabaceae species, Arachis hypogaea L.; one Theaceae species, Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze; four Rubiaceae species, Coffea arabica L. , C. canephora Pierre ex A.Froehner , Fleroya stipulosa (DC.)

Y.F.Deng and Pavetta lanceolata Eckl. ; two Combretaceae species, Combretum sp. and Quisqualis indica L.; one Colchicaceae species, Gloriosa superba L.; two Malvaceae species, Gossypium sp. and

Theobroma cacao L.; one Convolvulaceae species, Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.; three Rosaceae species,

Malus sylvestris (L.) Mill., Prunus domestica L. and Rosa sp. ; one Bignoniaceae species, Markhamia

sp.; one Euphorbiaceae species, Ricinus communis L.; one Anacardiaceae species, Spondias mombin L.

and one Poaceae species, Zea mays L..

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.

Genus Latoiola Hering, 1955