Chiromachla leuconoe ( Hopffer, 1857 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 285

Chiromachla leuconoe ( Hopffer, 1857)

COMMON NAME (S): White Bear, Tiger Moth. White Bear SYNONYM(S): None. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique,

Seychelles, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kafue, in Lusaka Province; Ndola and Chililabombwe, in Copperbelt Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include a yet to be identified Rubiaceae species ( Coffea sp. ) in Angola and a yet to be identified Asteraceae species ( Senecio sp. ) in unnamed African country or countries ( Pinhey 1975). The

African Moths (2019) webpage list the following as larval foodplants of the taxon; eight Asteraceae species

(i.e. Emilia abyssinica (Sch.Bip. ex A.Rich.) C.Jeffrey , Senecio pellucidus DC. , S. madagascariensis

Poir., S. syringifolius O.Hoffm. , Bidens pilosa L., Crassocephalum vitellinum S.Moore , Cynara sp. , and

Eclipta prostrata Lour. ), one Plantaginaceae species (Vernonica sp.), one Moraceae ( Morus sp. ), one

Rosaceae species ( Rubus sp. ) and one Rubiaceae species ( Coffea sp. ). SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; Pinhey 1975.

Genus Creatonotos H̡bner, 1819