Cephonodes hylas virescens ( Wallengren, 1865 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 176

Cephonodes hylas virescens ( Wallengren, 1865)

COMMON NAME (S): Oriental Bee Hawkmoth or Pellucid hawkmoth. SYNONYM(S): Macroglossum confinis Boisduval, 1875 . IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho,

Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mozambique, Namibia , Nigeria, Oman, Republic of Congo, Réunion, Rwanda,

Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include: Four Rubiaceae species ( Gardenia sp. , Burchellia sp. , Kraussia sp. and Empogona lanceolata (Sond.) Tosh & Robbr. ) in South Africa ( Pinhey 1960; van den Berg et al.

1975). One Rubiaceae species ( Coffea sp. ) in Angola (Rougeot 1966) ; two Rubiaceae species ( Guettarda speciosa L. and Pyrostria bibracteata (Baker) Cavaco ) in Seychelles ( Fletcher 1910; Gerlach 1998);

one Rubiaceae species ( Oxyanthus formosus Hook.f. ) in Nigeria ( MacNulty 1970) and two Rubiaceae

( Morelia senegalensis A.Rich. ex DC. and Pavetta mollissima Hutch. & Dalziel ) in Côte d’Ivoire

( Vuattoux et al. 1989).

The following Rubiaceae plant species are reported as larval foodplants of the taxon without specifying in which of the above listed countries in which the taxon is distributed, the plant species are found: Burchellia , Vangueria , Pyrostria bibracteata (Baker) Cavaco , Coffea sp. , Gardenia jasminoides J.Ellis , Guettarda speciosa L., Empogona lanceolata (Sond.) Tosh & Robbr. , Morelia senegalensis A.Rich. ex DC. and Pavetta mollissima Hutch. & Dalziel ( African Moths 2019) .

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Fletcher 1910; Gerlach 1998; Hampson 1910c; MacNulty 1970; Pinhey 1960; Rougeot 1966; van den Berg et al. 1975; Vuattoux et al. 1989.