Alytarchia amanda ( Boisduval, 1847 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 283

Alytarchia amanda ( Boisduval, 1847) *

COMMON NAME (S): Cheetah or Tiger Moth.

SYNONYM(S): Deiopeia cingulifera Walker, 1854b ; Deiopeia ocellina Walker, 1854b ; Xanthesthes albicincta Rambur, 1866 ; Deiopeia serrata Mabille, 1879b .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia , Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Réunion, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Choma and Livingstone, in Southern Province ; Chingola, in Copperbelt Province ; Lusaka ** and Kafue, in Lusaka Province ; Mumbwa, in Central Province

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: one Fabaceae species ( Crotalaria uncinella Lam. ) in the Réunion ( Martiré & Rochat 2008); the African Moths (2019) webpage adds another Fabaceae species namely, Crotalaria lanceolata E.Mey. , as a larval foodplant of the taxon.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; Martiré & Rochat 2008.