Cyligramma magus (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 338

Cyligramma magus (Guérin-Méneville, 1832) ( Fig. 38 )

COMMON NAME (S): Underwing.

SYNONYM(S): Cyligramma buchholzi Pl ̂tz, 1880, Cyligramma goudotii Guenée, 1852c .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia , Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1902 a.

Genus Dysgonia H̡bner, 1823

Figures

FIGURES 38–40. Adult moths. 38a, Nephele peneus (Cramer, 1776) (Sphingidae: Macroglossinae). Collected at a black light trap in Lusaka, 6 May 2011, dorsal view; 38b, ditto, ventral view. 39a, Temnora natalis Walker, 1856—Natal Temnora (Sphingidae: Macroglossinae) collected at a black light trap, Lusaka, 5 January 2011; 39b, ditto, ventral view. 40a, Asota speciosa (Drury, 1773)—Specious Tiger (Erebidae: Aganainae) caught at a black light trap in Lusaka, 8 March 2011; 40b, ditto, ventral view. Scale bar 2 cm. © Kind permission of the University of Zambia.