Imbrasia epimethea ( Drury, 1773 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 165-166

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Imbrasia epimethea ( Drury, 1773 )
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COMMON NAME (S): Saturniid.

SYNONYM(S): Bombyx nictitans Fabricius, 1775 ; Bunaea dorcas Walker, 1855 ; Imbrasia crameri Kirby, 1892 ; Imbrasia diomede Karsch, 1893 ; Imbrasia nadari Bouvier, 1928 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rquatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Fwambo in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Polyphagous, larval foodplants include mainly Fabaceae , but also Euphorbiaceae , Combretaceae , Apocynaceae , etc..

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022.