Leucophlebia afra Karsch, 1891

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 193

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
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scientific name	Leucophlebia afra Karsch, 1891
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COMMON NAME (S): Rosy banded hawkmoth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Malawi, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Senegal, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants are grasses ( Poaceae ) including Hyparrhenia subplumosa ( African Moths 2019) .

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; D’Abrera 1987; De Prins & De Prins 2022.