Plateoplia acrobelia ( Wallengren, 1875 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 227

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
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scientific name	Plateoplia acrobelia ( Wallengren, 1875 )
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COMMON NAME (S): Geometer moth.

SYNONYM(S): Pristostegania flavata Warren, 1897 ; Tephrinopsis ochriciliata Warren, 1901b .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia , South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Chieftainess Chiawa area in Lower Zambezi Valley, Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include two Olacaceae species namely the Hog plum, Ximenia americana L. and the large sourplum, X. caffra Sond. ( African Moths, 2019].

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

Genus Plegapteryx Herrich-Schäffer, 1856