Bocchoris inspersalis ( Zeller, 1852 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 100

Bocchoris inspersalis ( Zeller, 1852)

COMMON NAME (S): Dotted Sable. SYNONYM(S): Desmia afflictalis Guenée, 1854 ; Aediodes bootanalis Walker, 1866a ; Desmia stellaris Butler, 1879c ; Hymenia pusaensis Bhattacherjee, 1973 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia , Nigeria, Réunion, Sao

Tome & Principe, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tanzania,

Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kafue and Lusaka, in Lusaka Province; Chisamba, in Central Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval food plants of the taxon include: One Malvaceae species ( Triplochiton scleroxylon K.Schum. ) in Ghana ( Wagner et al. 2008); one Amaranthaceae species ( Telanthera versicolor Regel ) in the

Democratic Republic of Congo ( Ghesquière 1942) and two Fabaceae species ( Arachis hypogaea L. and

Desmodium triflorum (L.) DC.) in an unnamed African country or countries ( Poltavsky et al. 2018b).

Without specifying in which country in Africa they occur, the African Moths (2019) webpage indicates the following as larval foodplants of the taxon; one Fabaceae species ( Arachis hypogaea L. [Peanut,

groundnut or monkey nut]), one Malvaceae species ( Triplochiton scleroxylon K.Schum. ) and one

Amaranthaceae species ( Telanthera versicolor Regel ).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Ghesquière 1942; Hampson 1910c; Poltavsky et al. 2018b; Wagner et al. 2008.

Genus Botyodes Guenée, 1854