Isturgia deerraria ( Walker, 1861b )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 220

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
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scientific name	Isturgia deerraria ( Walker, 1861b )
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Isturgia deerraria ( Walker, 1861b) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Geometer moth. SYNONYM(S): Tephrina nemorivaga Wallengren, 1872 View in CoL ; Tephrina dissocia Warren, 1897 . IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Cabo Verde, Chad, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea,

Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique,

Namibia , Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda,

United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Chililabombwe and Kitwe in Copperbelt Province; Mpika in Muchinga Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): In south Africa, the taxon is hosted by the following Fabaceae species Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi

& Galasso, A. hirtella E.Mey. , Acacia nilotica (L.) Delile, and Peltophorum sp. In Kenya it is hosted by

A. tortilis (Forssk.) Hayne , while in another unnamed African region/country by Acacia cyanophylla .

No hot plants are listed for Zambia. The African Moths (2019) webpage lists the following as larval foodplants of the taxon: Five Fabaceae species A. tortilis (Forssk.) Hayne , Vachellia karroo (Hayne)

Banfi & Galasso, A. nilotica (L.) Delile, A. mearnsii De Wild. and Peltophorum africanum Sond. and one

Celastraceae View in CoL species, the candlewood or cherrywood, Pterocelastrus tricuspidatus Walp. SOURCES View in CoL : African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.