Ochropleura leucogaster ( Freyer, 1831 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 423-424

Ochropleura leucogaster ( Freyer, 1831)

COMMON NAME (S): Radford´s Flame Shoulder. SYNONYM(S): None. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Albania, Algeria, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of Congo,

Ethiopia, France, Great Britain, Greece (Crete), Hungary, Israel, Italy, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malta,

Moldova, Morocco, Portugal, Réunion, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, South Africa,

Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon in Réunion are: Verbascum thapsus L. ( Scrophulariaceae ), Impatiens walleriana

Hook.f. ( Balsaminaceae ) and Erica reunionensis E.G.H.Oliv. (Ericaceae) ( Martiré & Rochat 2008) but are unknown in Zambia. SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.

Genus Sciomesa Tams & Bowden, 1953