Pseudobunaea tyrrhena ( Westwood, 1849 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 172

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1

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scientific name

Pseudobunaea tyrrhena ( Westwood, 1849 )
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Pseudobunaea tyrrhena ( Westwood, 1849) View in CoL *

COMMON NAME(S): Cat’s paw emperor. SYNONYM(S): Pseudobunaea tyrrhena lutea Cooper & Cooper, 2002 View in CoL ; Alindabunaea reginamasabae Stoneham, 1962 . IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea,

Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa,

Togo, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka and Chirundu, in Lusaka Province; Kopa **, in Muchinga Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include four Ulmaceae species ( Trema bracteolata Blume , T. orientalis (L.) Blume,

Celtis africana Burm.f. , and C. pallida Torr. ), one Fagaceae species ( Fagus sp. ), one Meliaceae species

( Ekebergia capensis Sparrm. ), one Rubiaceae ( Psychotria capensis (Eckl.) Vatke ), one Ulmaceae species

( Ulmus sp. ), one Mimosaceae species ( Albizia sp. ) and one Fabaceae species ( Acacia sassa (Willd.)

Baillon ex Drake) ( Distant 1903; Fawcett 1903; Rougeot 1955, 1962; Pinhey 1972b; African Moths

2019). SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Distant 1903; Fawcett 1903; Hampson 1910c; Pinhey 1972b; Rougeot

1955, 1962.

Genus Rohaniella Bouvier, 1927b View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Saturniidae

Genus

Pseudobunaea

Loc

Pseudobunaea tyrrhena ( Westwood, 1849 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De 2023
2023
Loc

Pseudobunaea tyrrhena lutea

Cooper & Cooper 2002
2002
Loc

Alindabunaea reginamasabae

Stoneham 1962
1962
Loc

Rohaniella

Bouvier 1927
1927
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