Ceryx pterophorina ( Mabille, 1892c )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 303

Ceryx pterophorina ( Mabille, 1892c)

COMMON NAME (S): Wasp Moth. SYNONYM(S): None. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Botswana. Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Zambia,

Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Upper Luangwa valley, in Muchinga Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include a yet to be identified Poaceae species namely Saccharum sp. ( Pinhey 1975) . The

African Moths (2019) webpage actually names Saccharum officinarum L. and a Zinnia sp. , both from the grass family Asteraceae , as some of the larval foodplants for the taxon. SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975; Strand 1909a –h.

Genus Pseudmelisa Hampson, 1910