Gonimbrasia wahlbergina Rougeot, 1972

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 162

Gonimbrasia wahlbergina Rougeot, 1972

COMMON NAME (S): Wahlberg’s Emperor. SYNONYM(S): None. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: two Anacardiaceae species, Mangifera indica L. and Schinus mole L. ;

one Rosaceae species, Prunus persica (L.) Batsch; one Myrtaceae species, Psidium guajava L.; one

Euphorbiaceae species, Ricinus communis L.; two Ulmaceae species, Trema bracteolata Blume and

T. orientalis (L.) Blume; one Fabaceae species, Acacia mearnsii De Wild. ; one Meliaceae species,

Ekebergia capensis Sparrm. ; one Stilbaceae species, Halleria lucida L. and; one yet to be identified

Capparaceae species, Maerua sp. SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022.