Polyptychus coryndoni Rothschild & Jordan, 1903

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 197

Polyptychus coryndoni Rothschild & Jordan, 1903

COMMON NAME (S): Coryndon’s Polyptychus Hawkmoth or Coryndon’s Polyptychus . SYNONYM(S): Polyptychus reussi Strand, 1911g .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Type locality, Gowlu-pan, between Lialui and Kazungula, upper Zambesi valley, in the Western Province ; Abercorn [now Mbala], in Northern Province ; Lusaka , in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include one Dipterocarpaceae species ( Monotes kerstingii Gilg ) in Côte d’Ivoire ( Vuattoux et al. 1989), one Chrysobalanaceae species ( Parinari sp. ) and one Moraceae species ( Morus

sp.) in an unnamed African country or countries ( Pinhey 1975). The African Moths (2019) webpage lists the following as larval foodplants of the taxon; Morus sp. (Moraceae) , Parinari curatellifolia Planch. ex

Benth. ( Chrysobalanaceae ) and Monotes kerstingii Gilg (Dipterocarpaceae) .

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975; Rothschild & Jordan 1903; Vuattoux et al. 1989.