Latoia vivida (Walker, 1865) (Figs 23–25)

Neaera vivida Walker, 1865, List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, 32: 478. Type locality: South Africa, Natal. Syntypes, 2 males (NHMUK).

Material examined: Mozambique, MSR. 3 males, West Gate (Sand Forest, Sand Thicket), 22 m, 26°30′14.2″S, 32°42′59.6″E, 13–15.ii.2018, László, G., Mulvaney, J., Smith, L. leg. ANHRT:2018.2 ; 2 males, same site and collectors, 21–22.ii.2018; 1 male, same site and collectors, 24–25.ii.2018; 1 male, same site and collectors, 9– 17.ii.2018; 1 male, same site and collectors, 10–17.ii.2018; 4 males, same site, 3–13.xii.2016, Aristophanous, M., Cristóvão, J., László, G., Miles, W. leg., ANHRT:2017.22; 5 males, same site and collectors, 21–30.xi.2016; 4 males, Ponta Milibangalala (Dune Grassland, Dune Forest Ecotone), 15 m, 26°26′58.6″S, 32°55′29.8″E, 17– 21.ii.2018, László, G., Mulvaney, J., Smith, L. leg. ANHRT:2018.2 ; 1 female, 4 males, same site, 30.xi– 3.xii.2016, Aristophanous, M., Cristóvão, J., László, G., Miles, W. leg., ANHRT:2017.22 .

Distribution: This species has been collected in Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Taxonomic note: Due to the prevalent confusion in diagnoses of the green tropical and subtropical slug moths, Latoia vivida has been referred to as Latoia (Fourie & Hull 1980) or Parasa (Hill 2008, Evans 1968) in scientific literature. We follow Janse’s (1964) review and consider this species to belong to Latoia (pp. 118–119).