Gonimbrasia alopia ( Westwood, 1849 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 155

Gonimbrasia alopia ( Westwood, 1849)

COMMON NAME (S): Saturniid. SYNONYM(S): Bunaea antigone Sonthonnax, 1901b ; Nudaurelia sonthonnaxi Weymer, 1907 ; Nudaurelia waterloti Bouvier, 1930b ; Nudaurelia obliqua Bouvier, 1930c .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Hostplants include: one Fabaceae species ( Albizia ferruginea (Guill. & Perr.) Benth. ), one Connaraceae species ( Manotes expansa Sol. ex Planch.), one Euphorbiaceae species ( Chaetocarpus africanus Pax ),

one Anacardiaceae species ( Mangifera indica L.), two Zingiberaceae species ( Aframomum alboviolaceum

(Ridl.) K.Schum. and Costus phyllocephalus K.Schum. ), one Burseraceae species ( Dacryodes edulis

(G.Don) H.J.Lam) and one Lecythidaceae species ( Petersianthus macrocarpus (P.Beauv.) Liben ) in the

Democratic Republic of Congo; one Ulmaceae ( Trema orientalis (L.) Blume) in Angola and elsewhere in an unnamed African country (Rougeot 1962a). No host plants have been reported for Zambia, but since some of the named host plants of the taxon in these other countries in Africa also occur in Zambia, it is very likely that they are also consumed by the taxon in Zambia.

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Latham 2003; Latham & Konda ku Mbuta 2014; Lautenschläger et al. 2017; Naumann 2008; Rougeot 1962; Saturniidae of the World 2019.