Pingasa abyssiniaria ( Guenée, 1857a )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 242

Pingasa abyssiniaria ( Guenée, 1857a)

COMMON NAME (S): Duster. SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Monze, in Southern Province; Kafue, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Pinhey (1975) reported that a yet to be identified Apocynaceae species namely, Carissa sp. and another yet to be identified species from the Anacardiaceae family namely, Schinus sp. , are host plants of this taxon. The African Moths (2019) website lists the following as larval foodplants of the taxon: one

Araliaceae species, Cussonia spicata Thunb. ; one yet to be identified Apocynaceae species, Carissa sp. ;

one Myrtaceae species, Eugenia cordata (Sw.) DC. ; two Primulaceae species, Maesa alnifolia Harv.

and M. lanceolata Forssk. ; one Pinaceae species, Pinus radiata D.Don and one yet to be identified

Anacardiaceae species, Schinus sp.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1; Pinhey 1975.