Cyligramma latona ( Cramer, 1775 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 338

Cyligramma latona ( Cramer, 1775) * ( Fig. 37 )

COMMON NAME (S): Cream striped owl.

SYNONYM(S): Noctua troglodyta Fabricius, 1794 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia , Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Réunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena (with Ascension and Tristan da Cunha), Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: University of Zambia Campus ** and another locality in Lusaka [Latitude, - 15.4176° South; Longitude, 28.31123° East], Lusaka Province ; Kabwe and another locality [Latitude, - 12.59098° South; Longitude, 30.25443° East], in Central Province ; Livingstone, in Southern Province ; Ndola, in Copperbelt Province .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include a yet to be identified Fabaceae species namely Acacia sp. ( Pinhey 1975) . Additionally, the African Moths (2019) webpage indicated that Entada abyssinica (Fabaceae) and Malus pumila (Rosaceae) are larval foodplants of the taxon.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1901e; Pinhey 1975; Scan-bugs Organization, 2019a.

Figures

FIGURES 35–37. Adult moths. 35a, Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)—Silver Striped Hawk or Vine Hawk (Sphingidae: Macroglossinae) collected using a black light trap in Lusaka, 30 December 2010, dorsal view; 35b, ditto, ventral view. 36a, Hippotion eson (Cramer, 1779)—Common Striped Hawk (Sphingidae: Macroglossinae) collected at a black light trap in Lusaka, 30 December 2010, dorsal view; 36b, ditto, ventral view. 37a, Nephele comma Hopffer, 1857—Comma Nephele, male (Sphingidae: Macroglossinae) collected by a black light trap in Lusaka, 4 January 2011, dorsal view; 37b, ditto, ventral view. Scale bar 2 cm. © Kind permission of the University of Zambia.