Bombycopsis bipars ( Walker, 1855d )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 120

Bombycopsis bipars ( Walker, 1855d)

COMMON NAME (S): Indecorous Eggar. SYNONYM(S): Eriogaster incompta Walker, 1855d ; Lasiocampa indecora Walker, 1865b .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Côte d’Ivoire, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia , Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): In South Africa, Pentzia incana (Thunb.) Kuntze (Asteraceae) is indicated as the host plant of this taxon. Elsewhere in Africa , the taxon is hosted by the following plant species: Eriosema sp. , Albizia sp. and

Cajanus cajan from the family Fabaceae ; Microglossa sp. , Laggera sp. and Vernonia amygdalina

Delile from the family Asteraceae ; and Protea sp. (Proteaceae) , Coffea sp. (Rubiaceae) , Gossypium

sp. ( Malvaceae ), Cupressus macnabiana A.Murray bis ( Cupressaceae ), Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.

( Convolvulaceae ), Justicia sp. (Acanthaceae) and Pinus radiata D.Don (Pinaceae) . No host plants of the taxon are known in Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.