Naroma varipes ( Walker, 1865b )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 373

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scientific name	Naroma varipes ( Walker, 1865b )
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Naroma varipes ( Walker, 1865b) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Figtree moth or Fig Tree Moth.

SYNONYM(S): Woerdenia weyenberghi Snellen, 1872 ; Dasychira mabilli Rochebrune, 1884 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia , Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Ficus carica L. ( Moraceae ) is a host plant of the taxon in South Africa ( Prinsloo & Uys 2015), while another Moraceae yet to be identified namely, Ficus sp. is the host in unnamed African country or countries ( Mabille 1884a). Three Moraceae species Ficus thonningii Blume , F. sur Forssk. and F. natalensis Hochst. are reported by the African Moths (2019) webpage, as larval foodplants of the taxon.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Bingham et al. 2010; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Mabille 1884a; Pinhey 1975; Prinsloo & Uys 2015.

Genus Neomardara Hering, 1926 View in CoL