Isturgia deerraria ( Walker, 1861b )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 220

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6
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scientific name	Isturgia deerraria ( Walker, 1861b )
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Isturgia deerraria ( Walker, 1861b) View in CoL

COMMON NAME(S): Geometer moth. SYNONYM(S): Tephrina nemorivaga Wallengren, 1872 View in CoL ; Tephrina dissocia Warren, 1897 . IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Cabo Verde, Chad, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea,

Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique,

Namibia, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda,

United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Chililabombwe and Kitwe in Copperbelt Province; Mpika in Muchinga Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): In south Africa, the taxon is hosted by the following Fabaceae species Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi

& Galasso, A. hirtella E.Mey. , Acacia nilotica (L.) Delile, and Peltophorum sp. In Kenya it is hosted by

A. tortilis (Forssk.) Hayne , while in another unnamed African region/country by Acacia cyanophylla .

No hot plants are listed for Zambia. The African Moths (2019) webpage lists the following as larval foodplants of the taxon: Five Fabaceae species A. tortilis (Forssk.) Hayne , Vachellia karroo (Hayne)

Banfi & Galasso, A. nilotica (L.) Delile, A. mearnsii De Wild. and Peltophorum africanum Sond. and one

Celastraceae View in CoL species, the candlewood or cherrywood, Pterocelastrus tricuspidatus Walp. SOURCES View in CoL : African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.