Heniocha apollonia ( Cramer, 1779 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 163-164

Heniocha apollonia ( Cramer, 1779) *

COMMON NAME (S): Southern Marbled Emperor.

SYNONYM(S): Saturnia flavida Butler, 1877c ; Saturnia terpsichorina Westwood, 1881a ; Heniocha lindti Gr ̧nberg, 1910b; Heniocha apollina Gaede, 1927 ; Heniocha divisa Bryk, 1939 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia , South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kafue , Chongwe ** and Lusaka , in Lusaka Province; Monze and Victoria Falls , in the Southern Province ; Kopa, in Muchinga Province ; Sesheke in Western Province .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: two Fabaceae species ( Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi & Galasso and Acacia mearnsii De Wild. ) in South Africa ( Oberprieler 1995.) and one Fabaceae species ( A. pubescens (Vent.)

R.Br.) in an unnamed country in Africa ( Pinhey 1972b) . No larval foodplants of the taxon have been reported for Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Butler 1877d; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Oberprieler 1995; Pinhey 1972b.