Eumeta cervina Druce, 1887

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 21-22

Eumeta cervina Druce, 1887

COMMON NAME (S): Common Bagworm or Edible Psychidae (at least, in Zambia). SYNONYM(S): Eumeta moddermanni Heylaerts, 1888 ; Clania pictipennis Strand, 1913c . IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia , Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia,

Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Zambezi rapids in Ikelenge, north of Mwinilunga, in Northwestern Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include: one Fabaceae species ( Cassia javanica L.), two Cupressaceae species ( Cupressus lusitanica and Cupressus sempervirens ) and one Euphorbiaceae species ( Sapium ellipticum (Hochst.)

Pax)) in Uganda. One Cupressaceae species ( Macrocarpa sp.), one Fabaceae species ( Acacia sp. ) and one

Anacardiaceae species ( Schinus mole L. ) in South Africa; one Sterculiaceae species, Theobroma cacao

L., in Nigeria; one Malvaceae species, Cola sp. , from Guinea; one Malvaceae species ( Gossypium sp. ),

one Anacardiaceae species ( Mangifera indica L.), one Rutaceae species ( Citrus sp. ), one Cupressaceae species ( Cupressus sp. ), one Casuarinaceae soecies ( Casuarina equisetifolia L.) and one Combretaceae species ( Guiera senegalensis J.F.Gmel. ) from elsewhere in Africa . No specific host plants for this taxon have been reported for Zambia.

The African Moths (2019) webpage, on the pother hand, simply lists the following as larval foodplants of the taxon: One Fabaceae species, Acacia mearnsii De Wild. ; one Proteaceae species, Protea caffra

Meisn.; one Lythraceae species, Punica granatum L.; three Malvaceae species Theobroma cacao L.,

Gossypium sp. and Cola sp. ; two Anacardiaceae species, Mangifera indica L. and Schinus mole L. ;

one Rutaceae species, Citrus sp. ; one Cupressaceae species, Cupressus sp. ; one Casuarinaceae species,

Casuarina equisetifolia L., and one Combretaceae species, Guiera senegalensis J.F.Gmel.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Austara & Jones 1971; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Entwistle 1963; Hardenberg 1919; Pinhey 1975; Pujol 1957; Scalercio 2006.