Caligatus angasii Wing, 1850

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 378

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scientific name	Caligatus angasii Wing, 1850
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Caligatus angasii Wing, 1850 View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Venus Turntail.

SYNONYM(S): Pacidara venustissima Walker, 1865c .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Sao Tome & Principe, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include three Anacardiaceae species namely; Anacardium occidentale L., Protorhus longifolia Engl. and Harpephyllum caffrum Bernh. ex Krauss ( African Moths 2019) .

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.

Genus Colpocheilopteryx Wallengren, 1865 View in CoL