Polyptychus grayii ( Walker, 1856b )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 197

Polyptychus grayii ( Walker, 1856b)

COMMON NAME (S): Gray’s Polyptychus Hawkmoth or Gray’s Polyptychus .

SYNONYM(S): Polyptychoides chibinda ( Darge, 2011b) ; Polyptychoides furcillatus ( Darge, 2011b) ; Polyptychoides geita ( Darge, 2011b) ; Polyptychus modestus Gehlen, 1942 ; Polyptychoides obtusus ( Darge, 2004b) , Polyptychoides ruaha ( Darge, 2004b) ; Polyptychoides septentrionalis ( Darge, 2004b) ; Polyptychus unilineata Clark, 1935 ; Polyptychus villiersi Rougeot, 1970 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia , Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include: a Boraginaceae species ( Cordia caffra Sond. ) in South Africa ( Fawcett 1903) and two Boraginaceae species ( Cordia sp. and Ehretia sp. ) and an Ulmaceae species ( Celtis sp. ) in an unnamed African country or countries ( MacNulty 1970; Pinhey 1975).

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; MacNulty 1970; Pinhey 1975.