Uresiphita gilvata (Fabricius, 1794) COMMON NAME(S): Yellow Under Pearl. SYNONYM(S): Pyralis limbalis Denis & Schifferm̧ller, 1775; Pyralis polygonalis Denis & Schifferm̧ller, 1775; Pyralis orientalis Fabricius, 1794; Pyralis diversalis Ḩbner, 1796; Pyralis rusticalis Ḩbner, 1796; Mecyna aversalis Guenée, 1854; Mecyna consanguinalis Guenée, 1854; Mecyna teriadalis Guenée, 1854; Mecyna deprivalis Walker, 1859d; Botys meridionalis Wocke, 1871; Mecyna virescens Butler, 1881d; Mecyna hemiclista Meyrick, 1936; Uresiphita ochrocrossa Clarke, 1971. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Lesotho, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malta, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Réunion, Romania, Russia, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, Ukraine, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kafue and Lusaka, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include: Four Fabaceae species (Ulex europaeus, Genista sp., Sarothamnus sp. and Sophora tomentosa) in the Réunion (Guillermet 2009; Martiré & Rochat 2008): One Fabaceae species (Ulex europaeus) in Saint Helena (Karisch 2005); One Meliaceae species (Cedrela sp.) in South Africa (Kroon 1999) and: Three Fabaceae species yet to be identified (Cytisus sp., Bolusanthus sp. and Spartium sp.) and one Celastraceae species yet to be identified (Putterlickia sp.) in an unnamed African country or counties (Pinhey 1975). Without specifying in which of the countries listed above they are found, the African Moths (2019) webpage reports the following as larval foodplants of this taxon; Two identified and five yet to be identified Fabaceae species (i.e. Ulex europaeus, Sophora tomentosa, Genista sp., Sarothamnus sp., Bolusanthus sp., Cytisus sp. and Spartium sp., one Meliaceae species (Cedrela sp.) and one Celastraceae species (Putterlickia sp.). SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Guillermet 2009; Hampson 1910c; Karisch 2005; Kroon 1999; Martiré & Rochat 2008; Pinhey 1975.

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 97-98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434