Alpenus maculosa (Cramer, 1781)

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 282

Alpenus maculosa (Cramer, 1781)

COMMON NAME (S): Tiger Moth.

SYNONYM(S): Expantheria assimilis Ḩbner, 1820; Alpenus aequalis Walker, 1855a ; Expantheria indeterminata Walker, 1855a ; Halesidota macularia Walker, 1865a ; Spilosoma eyralpenus Pl ̂tz, 1880; Alpenus kordofanus Wichgraf, 1922 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Chingola, in Copperbelt Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include: one Sterculiaceae species ( Theobroma cacao L.) in Nigeria ( Lamborn 1914) and two Amaryllidaceae species ( Hippeastrum sp. , and Zephranthes sp.) and one Fabaceae species ( Albizia sp. ) in unnamed African country or countries ( Watson 1989).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; Lamborn 1914; Watson 1989.