Epiphora bauhiniae (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 154

Epiphora bauhiniae (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)

COMMON NAME (S): Southern Atlas. SYNONYM(S): Attacus baumhiria Walker, 1855c ; Attacus faidherbia de la Rocha, 1874 ; Epiphora damarensis Schultze, 1913 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia , Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania,

Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province; Mpika, in Muchinga Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: three Rhamnaceae species ( Ziziphus sp. , Ziziphus jujuba Mill and Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Desf.) in Nigeria; two Rhamnaceae species ( Ziziphus mauritiana Lam. and Ziziphus mucronata Willd. ) in South Africa; one Rhamnaceae species ( Ziziphus mucronata Willd. ) in Zimbabwe;

one Rhamnaceae species ( Ziziphus sp. ) in Kenya ; and one Rhamnaceae species ( Ziziphus mucronata

Willd.) in Namibia . No specific host plants of the taxon have been reported for Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Aurivillius, 1905a ; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Gardner 1957; Janse 1918; Oberprieler 1995; Pinhey 1972b.