Chiasmia subcurvaria ( Mabille, 1898 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 213-214

Chiasmia subcurvaria ( Mabille, 1898)

COMMON NAME (S): Triple Striped Peacock.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia , Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kabwe, in Central Province ; Chinsali, in Muchinga Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Two Fabaceae species; Vachellia xanthophloea (Benth.) P.J.H.Hurter and Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi & Galasso are host plants of the taxon in Kenya and unnamed African countries (Kŗger 2001; Agassiz

& Harper 2009). To this, the African Moths (2019) webpage adds another Fabacae species, A. abyssinica Benth. , as larval foodplants of the taxon.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Agassiz & Harper 2009; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Kŗger 2001.