
Calesia zambesita Walker, 1865c COMMON NAME(S): White Chain or or Erebine Moth. SYNONYM(S): Asymbata roseiventris Gerstäcker, 1871; Calesia sambesita Hampson, 1902 a. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Type locality is Zambesi [now Zambezi] River (But not clear from the record in the literature, which part of Zambia). LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include two Acanthaceae species namely Dyschoriste thunbergiiflora Lindau and Thunbergia erecta T.Anderson. SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.
Published as part of Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), pp. 1-503 in Zootaxa 5354 (1) on pages 334-335, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
Lepidoptera, Calesia, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia, Calesia zambesita, Biodiversity, Erebidae, Taxonomy
Lepidoptera, Calesia, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia, Calesia zambesita, Biodiversity, Erebidae, Taxonomy
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