Chiasmia streniata ( Guenée, 1857b )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 213

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scientific name	Chiasmia streniata ( Guenée, 1857b )
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Chiasmia streniata ( Guenée, 1857b) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Geometer moth. SYNONYM(S): Macaria amandata Walker, 1861b View in CoL ; Godonela lunivallata Warren, 1905c View in CoL . IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi,

Mozambique, Namibia View in CoL , Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan,

Togo, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include two Fabaceae species namely, Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi &

Galasso, and A. xanthophloea Benth. (Kŗger 2001; Agassiz & Harper 2009). Additionally, the African

Moths (2019) webpage includes the Fabaceae species A. nilotica (L.) Delile and the False horsewood,

Hippobromus pauciflorus Radlk. (Sapindaceae) View in CoL as larval foodplants of the taxon. SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Agassiz & Harper 2009; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; Kŗger 2001.