Oedicentra albipennis Warren, 1902

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 224

Oedicentra albipennis Warren, 1902

COMMON NAME (S): Marbled white moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mwinilunga in Northwestern Province ; Kafue and Lusaka in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): The African Moths (2019) Webpage lists the following as larval foodplants of the taxon: the Stilbaceae species speces, Halleria lucida L.; the Oleaceae species, Ligustrum lucidum W.T.Aiton ; the Bignoniaceae species, Podranea brycei (N.E.Br.) Sprague ; the Verbenaceae species, Lantana camara L.; the Solanaceae species, Nicotiana tabacum L. and; the Pinaceae species, Pinus radiata D.Don.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1

Genus Omizodes Warren, 1894