Thalassodes quadraria Guenée, 1857a

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 244

Thalassodes quadraria Guenée, 1857a

COMMON NAME (S): Geometer moth. SYNONYM(S): Geometra digressa Walker, 1861a ; Thalassodes ricinaria Guenée, 1862 ; Nemoria aequaria Mabille, 1898 ; Nemoria chlorinaria Mabille, 1898 ; Thalassodes subreticulata Mabille, 1900 ; Hemithea sapoliaria ( Swinhoe, 1904) .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, Gambia, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Réunion, S„o Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda,

Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Serenje, in Central Province; Lusaka, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): The following larval foodplants are reported for the taxon for the Réunion; Ricinus communis L. ( Euphorbiaceae ), Mangifera indica L. ( Anacardiaceae ), Rosa sp. (Rosaceae) , Crotalaria verrucosa L.

( Fabaceae ), Tamarindus indica L. ( Fabaceae ) and Searsia longipes (Engl.) Moffett (Anacardiaceae) .

Reported from elsewhere in Africa are the host plants Coffea arabica L. , Myrica serrata Lam. , Schinus mole L. and Zea mays L. Though no specific host plants have been reported for the taxon for Zambia,

most of these host plants are also found in Zambia and very likely are larval foodplants for the taxon in the country. The African Moths (2019) lists the following as larval foodplants of the taxon: one

Euphorbiaceae species, Ricinus communis L.; two Anacardiaceae species, Mangifera indica L. and

Schinus mole L. ; one yet to be identified Rosaceae species, Rosa sp. ; one Fabaceae species, Crotalaria verrucosa L.; one Rubiaceae species, Coffea arabica L. ; one Myricaceae species, Myrica serrata Lam.

and one Poaceae species, Zea mays L.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1; Pinhey 1975.

Genus Victoria Warren, 1897a