Nephele vau ( Walker, 1856b )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 184

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
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scientific name	Nephele vau ( Walker, 1856b )
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Nephele vau ( Walker, 1856b) View in CoL *

COMMON NAME (S): V-Nephele Hawkmoth or V Nephele .

SYNONYM(S): Zonilia schimperi Lucas, 1857 ; Zonilia raffrayi Oberthur, 1878 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Solwezi, in Northwestern Province ; Lusaka , in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include one Apocynaceae species ( Carissa spinarum L. ) ( African Moths 2019; Delf & Harris, 1964).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Delf & Harris, 1964; Hampson 1910c.

Genus Rhodafra Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 View in CoL