Epiphora mythimnia ( Westwood, 1849 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 154

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scientific name	Epiphora mythimnia ( Westwood, 1849 )
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Epiphora mythimnia ( Westwood, 1849) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): White Ringed Atlas. SYNONYM(S): Epiphora scribonia Wallengren, 1860 View in CoL . IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia,

Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province; Kasempa, in Northwestern Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include two Rhamnaceae View in CoL species ( Helinus integrifolius (Lam.) Kuntze View in CoL and

Ziziphus mucronata Willd. ) and one Euphorbiaceae species ( Croton sylvaticus Hochst. The African

Moths (2019) website, on the other hand, lists the following as larval foodplants of the taxon: Two

Euphorbiaceae species, Croton sylvaticus Hochst. and C. gratissimus Burch. ; five Rhamnaceae species,

Helinus integrifolius (Lam.) Kuntze , H. ovatus E.Mey. ex Harv. & Sond. , Ziziphus mauritiana Lam., Z.

mucronata Willd. View in CoL , Frangula alnus Mill. View in CoL and one Bignoniaceae View in CoL species, Fernandoa magnifica Seem. SOURCES View in CoL : African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1972b.