Anticarsia rubricans ( Boisduval, 1833 )

Anticarsia rubricans ( Boisduval, 1833) View in CoL

COMMON NAME(S): Irrorated tabby. SYNONYM(S): Anticarsia irrorata sensu auct. nec Fabricius, 1781.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius,

Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Oman, Réunion, Sao Tome & Principe, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone,

Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kasempa and Solwezi, in Northwestern Province; Kafue, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): The Fabaceae species, Vigna marina (Burm.) Merr. is a host plant of the taxon in Seychelles ( Gerlach & Matyot 2006), while a yet to be identified Malvaceae species namely, Gossypium sp. , is another host plant in unnamed African country or countries ( Pinhey 1975). Six leguminous plant species ( Fabaceae ),

namely Cicer arietinum L. [chickpea or chick pea], Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp., Glycine max (L.) Merr.,

Phaseolus sp. , and Phaseolus sp. and two grass species ( Poaceae ) namely Oryza sativa L. (Rice) and

Saccharum officinarum L. (Sugarcane), are larval foodplants of the taxon ( African Moths 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.