Urota sinope (Westwood, 1849) COMMON NAME(S): Tailed Emperor or Edible caterpillar (“Finakisungwa” in “Bemba” language in Zambia). SYNONYM(S): Urota flavobrunnea Stoneham, 1962. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kopa, in Muchinga Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include one Anacardiaceae species (Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra (Sond.) Kokwaro), five Fabaceae species (Erythrina abyssinica DC., E. lysistemon Hutch., E. caffra Thunb., Laburnum sp., and Robinia pseudoacacia L.) and one Myrtaceae species (Eucalyptus sp.) (African Moths, 2019). SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Malaisse, 1997.

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