Afroplitis dasychirina ( Gaede, 1928 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 257

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
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scientific name	Afroplitis dasychirina ( Gaede, 1928 )
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Afroplitis dasychirina ( Gaede, 1928) View in CoL

COMMON NAME(S): Pink Horn. SYNONYM(S): Hoplitis dasychiroides Rothschild, 1917a ; Simesia pylades Kiriakoff, 1955b .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botwana , Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia , South Africa, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Two Combretaceae species namely, Terminalia sericea Burch. ex DC. and a yet to be identified species, Terminalia sp. ; an identified Chrysobalanaceae species, Parinari curatellifolia Planch. ex Benth. and a yet to be identified Chrysobalanaceae , Parinari sp. , are named as host plants of this taxon in South Africa

( Kroon 1999; Pinhey 1975). Without specifying in which African countries they occur, the African Moths

(2019) website, on the other hand, simply names the Chrysobalanaceae species, Parinari curatellifolia

Planch. ex Benth. and the Combretaceae species, Terminalia sericea Burch. ex DC. , as larval foodplants of the taxon.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Kroon 1999; Pinhey 1975.

Genus Amyops Karsch, 1895b View in CoL