Racinoa ficicola ( Ormerod, 1889 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 141

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
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scientific name	Racinoa ficicola ( Ormerod, 1889 )
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Racinoa ficicola ( Ormerod, 1889)

COMMON NAME (S): Small silk moth or Silkworm Moth. SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia , Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include six Moraceae species ( Ficus carica L., F. natalensis Hochst. , F. sur Forssk. , F. ingens (Miq.) Miq. , F. thonningii Blume and F. macrocarpa L.f.) and one Myrtaceae species ( Eucalyptus deglupta Blume ) ( African Moths 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022.