Gonimbrasia wahlbergii ( Boisduval, 1847 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 161

Gonimbrasia wahlbergii ( Boisduval, 1847)

COMMON NAME (S): Saturniid.

SYNONYM(S): Nudaurelia wahlbergii ochracea Rebel, 1917 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: one Fagaceae species ( Quercus sp. ) in South Africa ( Fawcett 1901); one Phyllanthaceae species ( Maesobotrya vermeulenii (De Wild.) J.Léonard ) in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( Latham 2003) and one Myrtaceae species ( Psidium guajava L.), two Anacardiaceae species ( Mangifera sp. and Schinus sp. ), one Euphorbiaceae species ( Ricinus communis L.), one Ulmaceae species ( Trema bracteolata Blume ) and one Capparidaceae species ( Maerua sp. ) in unnamed countries in Africa ( Pinhey 1972b) . Larval foodplants of the taxon are unknown in Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Darge 2011a; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Fawcett 1901; Latham 2003; Pinhey 1972b.