Epiphora bauhiniae (Guérin-Méneville, 1832) COMMON NAME(S): Southern Atlas. SYNONYM(S): Attacus baumhiria Walker, 1855c; Attacus faidherbia de la Rocha, 1874; Epiphora damarensis Schultze, 1913. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province; Mpika, in Muchinga Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: three Rhamnaceae species (Ziziphus sp., Ziziphus jujuba Mill and Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Desf.) in Nigeria; two Rhamnaceae species (Ziziphus mauritiana Lam. and Ziziphus mucronata Willd.) in South Africa; one Rhamnaceae species (Ziziphus mucronata Willd.) in Zimbabwe; one Rhamnaceae species (Ziziphus sp.) in Kenya; and one Rhamnaceae species (Ziziphus mucronata Willd.) in Namibia. No specific host plants of the taxon have been reported for Zambia. SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Aurivillius, 1905a; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Gardner 1957; Janse 1918; Oberprieler 1995; Pinhey 1972b.

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 page 154, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434