Heraclia africana ( Butler, 1875a )
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Heraclia africana ( Butler, 1875a ) |
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Heraclia africana ( Butler, 1875a) View in CoL
COMMON NAME (S): African False Tiger. SYNONYM(S): Eusemia meretrix Westwood, 1881a ; Xanthospilopteryx fatima Kirby, 1891 ; Xanthospilopteryx flava Jordan, 1913 . IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia View in CoL , South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include two species from the plant family Vitaceae View in CoL namely, Cyphostemma cirrhosum
(Thunb.) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm. and Rhoicissus tridentata View in CoL (L.f.) Wild & R.B.Drumm. ( African
Moths 2019). SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.
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Heraclia africana ( Butler, 1875a )
| Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De 2023 |
Xanthospilopteryx flava
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Xanthospilopteryx fatima
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Eusemia meretrix
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