Colocleora divisaria ( Walker, 1860b )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 216

Colocleora divisaria ( Walker, 1860b)

COMMON NAME (S): Diverse Brindle. SYNONYM(S): Colocleora acygonia ( Hampson, 1910c)

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa, Zambia. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Type locality Bangweolo [now Bangweulu] District, [now NE Zambia], in Luapula Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S):According to the African Moths (2019) webpage, larval foodplants of the taxon include: two Combretaceae species Combretum mossambicense (Klotzsch) Engl. and C. mole R.Br. ex G.Don ; one Ebenaceae species,

Diospyros villosa (L.) De Winter; two Malvaceae , Theobroma cacao L. and Triplochiton scleroxylon

K.Schum.; one Polygonaceae species, Antigonon leptopus Hook. & Arn. One yet to be identified

Cupressaceae species, Cupressus sp. ; one yet to be identified Myrtaceae , Eucalyptus sp. ; five Fabaceae species namely, Julbernardia magnistipulata (Harms) Troupin , Senna siamea (Lam.) H.S.Irwin &

Barneby, Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi & Galasso , Bauhinia variegata L. and Brachystegia spiciformis

Benth.; one Lamiaceae species, Tectona grandis L.f.; one Anacardiaceae species, Harpephyllum caffrum

Bernh. and one Phyllanthaceae species Bridelia micrantha (Hochst.) Baill.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.