Bunaeopsis oubie ( Guérin-Méneville, 1849 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 149

Bunaeopsis oubie ( Guérin-Méneville, 1849)

COMMON NAME (S): Zaddach’s Emperor.

SYNONYM(S): Nudaurelia aethiopica Le Cerf, 1911b ; Nudaurelia argillosa Le Cerf, 1911c ; Nudaurelia neuvillei Le Cerf, 1911c ; Nudaurelia rothschildi Le Cerf, 1911c ; Gonimbrasia tanganyikae Sch ̧ssler, 1933; Nudaurelia afraorientalis

Stoneham, 1959.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kopa and Mpika, in Muchinga Province ; Serenje, in Central Province; Solwezi, in Northwestern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include undefined grasses ( Poaceae ) in the Democratic Republic of Congo and elsewhere in Africa ; one Poaceae species ( Sporobolus sp. ) and one Ebenaceae species ( Euclea sp. ), No specific host plants of the taxon are known in Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1972b; Rougeot 1962; Rougeot & Allard 1966.