Ulotrichopus primulina ( Hampson, 1902 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 354

Ulotrichopus primulina ( Hampson, 1902) *

COMMON NAME (S): Primrose Underwing.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Cabo Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: University of Zambia Campus (Lusaka) **, in Lusaka Province .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): The host plant of the taxon in Kenya is Vachellia xanthophloea (Benth.) P.J.H.Hurter (Fabaceae) ( Agassiz & Harper 2009). The African Moths (2019) webpage also indicates that the Fabaceae species Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi & Galasso and Vachellia tortilis (Forssk.) Galasso & Banfi are larval foodplants of the taxon but without specifying where in the countries listed above this is the case.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Cataloge of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.