Ludia orinoptena Karsch, 1893

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 168

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scientific name	Ludia orinoptena Karsch, 1893
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Ludia orinoptena Karsch, 1893 View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Saturniid. SYNONYM(S): Ludia pupillata Strand, 1911h View in CoL ; Ludia syngena Jordan, 1922 View in CoL ; Ludia leonardo Stoneham, 1962 ; Ludia styx Darge, 1996 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Rwanda, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: Seven Lamiaceae species namely, Plectranthus barbatus Andrews , Plectranthus scutellarioides (L.) R.Br., P. forskohlii Coleus forskohlii (Willd.) Briq. , Tetradenia multiflora (Benth.)

Phillipson, Hoslundia sp. and Ocimum sp. , and five Asteraceae species Laggera alata Nanth. , Mikania

sp., Gynura sp. , Lactuca sp. , and Cynara sp.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022.

Genus Melanocera Sonthonnax, 1901a View in CoL