Achaea catella Guenée, 1852c

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 328

Achaea catella Guenée, 1852c

COMMON NAME (S): Banded achaea. SYNONYM(S): None. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia , Niger,

Nigeria, Oman, Réunion, Saint Helena , Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan,

Sudan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Tanzania, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka and Kafue in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include: one Combretaceae species ( Terminalia catappa L.) in the Réunion ( Martiré & Rochat 2008); two Fabaceae species ( Bauhinia sp. and Tamarindus sp. ) in South Africa ( Pinhey 1975) ; one

Fabaceae species ( Afzelia africana Pers. ) in Ghana ( Wagner et al. 2008); and three Euphorbiaceae species

( Ricinus sp. , Euphorbia systyla Edgew. and Euphorbia sp. ), two Myrtaceae species ( Eucalyptus sp. and

Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh. ), one Fabaceae species ( Lonchocarpus sp. ), one Convolvulaceae species ( Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) and one Pinaceae species ( Pinus radiata D.Don ) in unnamed African country or countries ( Walsingham & Hampson 1896; Austara & Jones 1971; Hacker & Hausmann 2010).

In addition to this, the African Moths (2019) webpage reports four Euphorbiaceae species ( Ricinus communis L., Euphorbia crotonoides Boiss. , Euphorbia hirta L. and E. scordiifolia Jacq. ), one Rosaceae species ( Malus pumila Mill. ), two Fabaceae species ( Pericopsis elata (Harms) Meeuwen and Acacia mearnsii De Wild. ) and one Rutaceae species ( Citrus sp. ) as larval foodplants of this taxon.

The wasp species, Enicospilus betanimenus (Saussure) (Ichneumonidae) , is reported as a parasitoid of the taxon in Zambabwe ( Rousse & van Noort 2014).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Austara & Jones, 1971; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hacker & Hausmann 2010; Martiré & Rochat 2008; Pinhey 1975; Rousse & van Noort 2014; Strand 1909a –h; Wagner et al. 2008; Walsingham & Hampson 1896.