Chiasmia brongusaria ( Walker, 1860a )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 209

Chiasmia brongusaria ( Walker, 1860a)

COMMON NAME (S): Variable peacock. SYNONYM(S): Tephrina incessaria Walker, 1861a ; Tephrina exsecutaria Walker, 1861b ; Phasiane miliaria Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875 ; Tephrinopsis sabulifera Warren, 1899b ; Semiothisa uvidaria Swinhoe, 1904 ; Tephrina oleochroa Hampson,

1909c.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

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

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Three Fabaceae species namely, Acacia hirtella E.Mey. , Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi & Galasso and A. sieberiana DC. are host plants of the taxon in South Africa ( Platt 1921; Scoble 1999; Taylor 1949),

while A. xanthophloea Benth. another Fabaceae species is its host in Kenya ( Agassiz & Harper 2009) . No specific host plants have been reported for the taxon in Zambia, while the African Moths (2019) webpage lists the following three Fabaceae species as larval foodplants of the taxon; Vachellia karroo (Hayne)

Banfi & Galasso, A. sieberiana DC and A. xanthophloea Benth.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Agassiz & Harper 2009; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; Platt 1921; Scoble 1999; Taylor 1949.