Pseudoradiarctia scita ( Walker, 1865a )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 289

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
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scientific name	Pseudoradiarctia scita ( Walker, 1865a )
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Pseudoradiarctia scita ( Walker, 1865a) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Cheetah. SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE)

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Livingstone, in Southern Province; Kabwe, in Central Province; Ndola, in Copperbelt Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include two Fabaceae species ( Acacia mearnsii De Wild. and Senna multiglandulosa (Jacq.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby ), one Smilacaceae species ( Smilax anceps Willd. ) and one Asteraceae species ( Tagetes erecta L.) in unnamed African country or countries ( Goodger & Watson 1995). The

African Moths (2019) webpage lists the following as larval foodplants of the taxon; three Fabaceae species ( Senna multiglandulosa (Jacq.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby , Acacia mearnsii De Wild. , and Tephrosia elongata E.Mey. ), two Asteraceae species ( Senecio bupleuroides DC. and Tagetes erecta L.) and one

Smilacaceae species ( Smilax anceps Willd. ).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Goodger & Watson 1995.

Genus Radiarctia Dubatolov, 2006b View in CoL