Antheua simplex Walker, 1855a

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 268

Antheua simplex Walker, 1855a

COMMON NAME (S): Burnished frill. SYNONYM(S): Diastema straminea Herrich-Schäffer, 1855 ; Sirenopyga ephippiata Wallengren, 1858 ; Antheua sericea Felder,

1874. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial

Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Republic of Congo, Sierra

Leone, South Africa, Togo, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Petauke in Eastern Province; Kafue in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include Fabaceae species ( Desmodium sp. , Glycine max (L.) Merr., Desmodium barbatum , Desmodium incanum and Mucuna pruriens ) in South Africa ( Pinhey 1975; Schintlmeister &

Witt 2015; Janse 1920). Elsewhere in Africa , the larval foodplants of the taxon include Fabaceae species

( Alysicarpus sp. , Cajanus cajan , Canavalia sp. , Desmodium incanum , Glycine max , Mucuna pruriens ,

Pseudarthria sp. and Rhynchosia sp. ). SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Janse 1920; Kopij 2006; Pinhey 1975; Schintlmeister & Witt 2015.