Sphingonaepiopsis nana ( Walker, 1856b )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 184-185

Sphingonaepiopsis nana ( Walker, 1856b)

COMMON NAME (S): Savanna Hawkmoth, Hawklet Hawkmoth or Hawklet. SYNONYM(S): Sphingonaepiopsis gracilipes ( Wallengren, 1858) . IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of

Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia,

South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include one Rubiaceae species ( Galium sp. ) in Nigeria ( MacNulty 1970), another

( Oldenlandia affinis (Roem. & Schult.) DC. ) in Côte d’Ivoire ( Vuattoux et al. 1989) and another

( Kohautia caespitosa Schnizl. ) in an unnamed African country or countries ( Walsingham & Hampson

1896). Without specifying in which of the above-named countries they occur, the African Moths (2019)

website, on the other hand, lists the following seven Rubiaceae species as larval foodplants of this taxon:

Kohautia caespitosa Schnizl. , Oldenlandia affinis (Roem. & Schult.) DC. , Galium sp. , Hedyotis sp. ,

Kohautia sp. , Rubia sp. and Jaubertia sp. SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1896; MacNulty 1970; Pinhey 1975; Vuattoux et al. 1989;

Walsingham &.Hampson 1896.

Genus Temnora Walker, 1856b