Salagena obsolescens Hampson, 1910b

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 50

Salagena obsolescens Hampson, 1910b

COMMON NAME (S): Tropical carpenter moth, Carpenter moth or Goat moth. SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Mozambique, Namibia , South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Livingstone, in Southern Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon in South Africa are reported to include:three Myrtaceae species, Syzygium cordatum Hochst. ex Krauss , Psidium guajava L., and a yet to be identified Eugenia sp. ; one Juglandaceae species,

Carya illinoinensis (Wangenh.) K.Koch ; two Sapindaceae species, Litchi chinensis Sonn. and Pappea capensis Eckl. & Zeyh. ; one yet to be identified Moraceae species, Ficus sp. ; two Combretaceae species,

Combretum collinum Fresen. and C. zeyheri Sond. ; two Proteaceae species, Macadamia integrifolia

Maiden & Betche and M. tetraphylla L.A.S.Johnson. The African Moths (2019) webpage lists Eugenia cordata (Sw.) DC. without specifying countries in Africa where it is found.

De Prins and De Prins (2020) name a yet to be identified Ichneumonidae species, Genaemirum sp. , as a parasitoid of this species in South Africa.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1; Pinhey 1975.