Cyligramma latona ( Cramer, 1775 )

Cyligramma latona ( Cramer, 1775) View in CoL * ( Fig. 37 View FIGURES 35–37 )

COMMON NAME(S): Cream striped owl.

SYNONYM(S): Noctua troglodyta Fabricius, 1794 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Réunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena (with Ascension and Tristan da Cunha), Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: University of Zambia Campus ** and another locality in Lusaka [ Latitude, - 15.4176° South; Longitude, 28.31123° East], Lusaka Province; Kabwe and another locality [ Latitude, - 12.59098° South; Longitude, 30.25443° East], in Central Province; Livingstone, in Southern Province; Ndola, in Copperbelt Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include a yet to be identified Fabaceae species namely Acacia sp. ( Pinhey 1975) . Additionally, the African Moths (2019) webpage indicated that Entada abyssinica (Fabaceae) and Malus pumila (Rosaceae) are larval foodplants of the taxon.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1901e; Pinhey 1975; Scan-bugs Organization, 2019a.