Anticarsia rubricans ( Boisduval, 1833 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 354

Anticarsia rubricans ( Boisduval, 1833)

COMMON NAME (S): Irrorated tabby. SYNONYM(S): Anticarsia irrorata sensu auct. nec Fabricius, 1781.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius,

Mozambique, Namibia , Nigeria, Oman, Réunion, Sao Tome & Principe, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone,

Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kasempa and Solwezi, in Northwestern Province; Kafue, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): The Fabaceae species, Vigna marina (Burm.) Merr. is a host plant of the taxon in Seychelles ( Gerlach & Matyot 2006), while a yet to be identified Malvaceae species namely, Gossypium sp. , is another host plant in unnamed African country or countries ( Pinhey 1975). Six leguminous plant species ( Fabaceae ),

namely Cicer arietinum L. [chickpea or chick pea], Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp., Glycine max (L.) Merr.,

Phaseolus sp. , and Phaseolus sp. and two grass species ( Poaceae ) namely Oryza sativa L. (Rice) and

Saccharum officinarum L. (Sugarcane), are larval foodplants of the taxon ( African Moths 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.