Parapoynx fluctuosalis ( Zeller, 1852 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 88-89

Parapoynx fluctuosalis ( Zeller, 1852)

COMMON NAME (S): Fluctuating China Mark.

SYNONYM(S): Parapoynx linealis Guenée, 1854 ; Hydrocampa circealis Walker, 1859b ; Oligostigma chrysippusalis Walker, 1859b ;

Oligostigma obitalis Walker, 1859b ; Oligostigma curta Butler, 1879a ; Parapoynx oryzalis Wood-Mason, 1885 ;

Parapoynx rugosalis M̂schler, 1890. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Australia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador (Galápagos

Islands), Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Great Britain, Guinea, Hawaii, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar,

Malaysia, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia , Puerto Rico, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South

Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Taiwan, Tunisia, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kafue and Lusaka, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include two aquatic plants; Hydrilla verticillata (L.f.) Royle ( Hydrocharitaceae )

and Nymphaea sp. (Nymphaeaceae) and the crop plant commonly called Asian rice, Oryza sativa L.

( Poaceae ). SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Agassiz 2012; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022.