Polymona rufifemur Walker, 1855a

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 375

Polymona rufifemur Walker, 1855a

COMMON NAME (S): Red Tailed Gipsy. SYNONYM(S): Morasa lorimeri Butler, 1878b ; Psilura scurrilis Wallengren, 1860 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia , Oman, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Schinus molle L., an Anacardiaceae species is a host plant of the taxon in South Africa ( Taylor 1949) . In Kenya , two yet to be identified Fabaceae species ( Acacia sp. and Phaseolus sp. ), one Rhizophoraceae species ( Cassipourea malosana Alston ), one unidentified Malvaceae species ( Dombeya sp. ) and one

Pinaceae species ( Pinus radiata D.Don ) are the host plants ( Austara & Jones, 1971). One Combretaceae species ( Combretum molle R.Br. ex G.Don ), one Sapindaceae species ( Pappea capensis Eckl. & Zeyh. ),

two Anacardiaceae species ( Searsia pyroides (Burch.) Moffett and Ozoroa mucronata (Bernh. ex Krauss)

R.Fern. & A.Fern.), two yet to be identified Fabaceae species ( Acacia sp. and Phaseolus sp. ), one

Rhizophoraceae species ( Cassipourea malosana Alston ) and one Malvaceae species ( Dombeya sp. ) are listed as larval foodplants by the African Moths (2019) webpage.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Kopij 2006; Pinhey 1975.

Genus Pseudobazisa Bryk, 1934