Gonimbrasia macrothyris ( Rothschild, 1906 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 159

Gonimbrasia macrothyris ( Rothschild, 1906)

COMMON NAME (S): Saturniid.

SYNONYM(S): Bunaea heroum Oberth ̧r, 1910a; Imbrasia lubumbashii ( Seydel, 1933) ; Bunaea regalis Rebel, 1906 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S):Host plants of the taxon include:one Euphorbiaceae species ( Chaetocarpus africanus Pax ), one Connaraceae species ( Manotes expansa Sol. ex Planch.), one Ochnaceae species ( Ochna afzelii R.Br. ex Oliv. ), one Anacardiaceae species ( Mangifera indica L.) and one Fabaceae species ( Acacia auriculiformis Benth. ) all in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( Latham 2003); one Fabaceae species ( Julbernardia sp. ) and one Caesalpiniaceae species ( Brachystegia spiciformis Benth. ) in an unnamed country or countries in Africa ( Pinhey 1972b) . No specific host plants have been reported for the taxon in Zambia.

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Latham 2003; Pinhey 1972b; Saturniidae of the World 2019.