Hodebertia testalis ( Fabricius, 1794 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 105-106

Hodebertia testalis ( Fabricius, 1794)

COMMON NAME (S): Incolorous pearl.

SYNONYM(S): Botys perpendiculalis Duponchel, 1833 ; Botys incoloralis Guenée, 1854 ; Botys ruficostalis Lederer, 1855 ; Botys melonalis Walker, 1859c ; Spilodes nitetisalis Walker, 1859c ; Botys albidalis Walker, 1866a ; Margaronia putrescens

Meyrick, 1934; Pyrausta phyllidalis Schaus, 1940 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Australia (Queensland), Botswana, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, France, Gambia, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Malta, Mozambique, Portugal, Réunion,

Saint Helena , Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tunisia,

Uganda, Yemen, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kabwe, in Central Province; Lusaka, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include: three Apocynaceae species ( Asclepias curassavica L., Asclepias sp. and Gomphocarpus sp. ) and one Malvaceae species ( Hibiscus sp. ) in the Réunion; one Apocynaceae species ( Asclepias sp. ) in Saint Helena ; one Asclepiadaceae species ( Stapelia sp. ) in South Africa; one

Asclepiadaceae species ( Pergularia extensa (Jacq.) N.E. Br. ) in the Democratic Republic of Congo and one Asclepiadaceae species ( Pergularia daemia (Forssk.) Chiov. ) in one unnamed African country or countries.

African Moths (2019 ireports six Apocynaceae species of plants ( Asclepias curassavica L., Calotropis gigantea (L.) Dryand., C. procera (Aiton) Dryand. , Leptadenia madagascariensis Decne , Gomphocarpus

sp. and Stapelia sp. ), two Malvaceae species ( Hibiscus sp. and Sida rhombifolia ), one Rutaceae species

( Citrus sp. ) and one Asclepiadoideae species ( Pergularia daemia (Forssk.) Chiov. )) as larval foodplants of this species.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Ghesquière 1942; Guillermet 2009; Martiré & Rochat 2008; Meyrick 1934a; Poltavsky et al. 2018b; Wollaston 1879.

Genus Hydriris Meyrick, 1885a