Urota sinope ( Westwood, 1849 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 174

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
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scientific name	Urota sinope ( Westwood, 1849 )
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Urota sinope ( Westwood, 1849) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Tailed Emperor or Edible caterpillar (“Finakisungwa” in “Bemba” language in Zambia). SYNONYM(S): Urota flavobrunnea Stoneham, 1962 View in CoL .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kopa, in Muchinga Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include one Anacardiaceae species ( Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra (Sond.) Kokwaro ), five Fabaceae species ( Erythrina abyssinica DC. , E. lysistemon Hutch. , E. caffra Thunb. , Laburnum sp. ,

and Robinia pseudoacacia L.) and one Myrtaceae species ( Eucalyptus sp. ) ( African Moths, 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Malaisse, 1997.