Chiasmia brongusaria (Walker, 1860a) COMMON NAME(S): Variable peacock. SYNONYM(S): Tephrina incessaria Walker, 1861a; Tephrina exsecutaria Walker, 1861b; Phasiane miliaria Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875; Tephrinopsis sabulifera Warren, 1899b; Semiothisa uvidaria Swinhoe, 1904; Tephrina oleochroa Hampson, 1909c. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Three Fabaceae species namely, Acacia hirtella E.Mey., Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi & Galasso and A. sieberiana DC. are host plants of the taxon in South Africa (Platt 1921; Scoble 1999; Taylor 1949), while A. xanthophloea Benth. another Fabaceae species is its host in Kenya (Agassiz & Harper 2009). No specific host plants have been reported for the taxon in Zambia, while the African Moths (2019) webpage lists the following three Fabaceae species as larval foodplants of the taxon; Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi & Galasso, A. sieberiana DC and A. xanthophloea Benth. SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Agassiz & Harper 2009; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; Platt 1921; Scoble 1999; Taylor 1949.

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