Athletes gigas ( Sonthonnax, 1904 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 145

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
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scientific name	Athletes gigas ( Sonthonnax, 1904 )
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Athletes gigas ( Sonthonnax, 1904) View in CoL *

COMMON NAME (S): Saturniid or Edible caterpillar (at least in Zambia). SYNONYM(S): Athletes steindachneri Rebel, 1904 View in CoL .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi , Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia , Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Luapula and Northern Provinces ; Lusaka ** in Lusaka Province; Kasempa and Solwezi in Northwestern Province .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include the following Fabaceae species Julbernardia paniculata (Benth.) Troupin , Vachellia xanthophloea (Benth.) P.J.H.Hurter , Julbernardia globiflora (Benth.) Troupin and Brachystegia spiciformis Benth ( African Moths, 2019) .

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1972b; University of Zambia Student Entomological Collections 1979–2004.