Stemorrhages sericea ( Drury, 1773 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 115-116

Stemorrhages sericea ( Drury, 1773)

COMMON NAME (S): Large emerald pearl.

SYNONYM(S): Pyralis polita Cramer, 1777 ; Phalaena laterata Fabricius, 1794 ; Margaronia congradalis Ḩbner, 1825; Botys thalassinalis Boisduval, 1833 ; Margarodes beryllalis Guenée, 1854 ; Margarodes sericeolalis Guenée, 1862 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Réunion, Sao Tome & Principe, Seychelles, Sierra

Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Livingstone and Zimba, in Southern Province; Mpika, in Muchinga Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants for the taxon include: three Apocynaceae species ( Tabernaemontana persicariifolia Jacq. , Tabernanthe iboga Baill. and Nerium oleander L.) and one Rubiaceae species ( Gardenia jasminoides

J.Ellis) in the Réunion; three Apocynaceae species ( Tabernaemontana divaricata (L.) R.Br. ex Roem. &

Schult., Nerium oleander L. and Ervatamia coronaria (Jacq.) Stapf ) in the Seychelles; two Rubiaceae species ( Gardenia jasminoides J.Ellis and another yet to be identified Gardenia sp. ) in Tanzania; one

Arecaceae species ( Raphia sp. ) and one Podocarpaceae species ( Afrocarpus usambarensis (Pilg.)

C.N.Page) in unnamed African country or countries. No specific host plants of the taxon have been reported for Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Fletcher 1910; Gerlach & Matyot 2006; Ghesquière 1942; Guillermet 2009; Hampson 1910c; Legrand 1966; Poltavsky et al. 2018b.

Genus Syllepte H̡bner, 1823