Batocnema africanus ( Distant, 1899a )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 192

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scientific name	Batocnema africanus ( Distant, 1899a )
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Batocnema africanus ( Distant, 1899a) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Harlequin Hawkmoth or Harelquin Hawk. SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Luangwa bridge, between Lusaka and Eastern Provinces; Nyika plateau, in Muchinga Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: Three Anacardiaceae species ( Sclerocarya sp. , Mangifera sp. and Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra (Sond.) Kokwaro ) in South Africa ( Pinhey 1975; van den Berg et al. 1975).

The African Moths (2019) webpage lists two Anacardiaceae species ( Sclerocarya birrea (A.Rich.)

Hochst. and Mangifera indica L.) as larval foodplants of the taxon without specifying in which of the listed countries above, they are found.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975; van den Berg et al. 1975.

Genus Falcatula Carcasson, 1968 View in CoL