Clostera violacearia ( Janse, 1920 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 270

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
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scientific name	Clostera violacearia ( Janse, 1920 )
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Clostera violacearia ( Janse, 1920) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Prominent or Notodontid moth. SYNONYM(S): Clostera mlanje Kiriakoff, 1981 . IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Eswatini, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include Proteaceae View in CoL species ( Protea sp. , Faurea sp. , Faurea saligna Harv. , F. rochetiana Chiov.

ex Pic.Serm.; Protea caffra Meisn. View in CoL , P. welwitschii Engl. View in CoL ) in South Africa ( Kroon 1999; Pinhey 1975;

Schintlmeister & Witt 2015). No host plants for the taxon have been reported for Zambia. SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Kroon, 1999; Pinhey, 1975; Schintlmeister & Witt 2015.