Pseudobunaea tyrrhena ( Westwood, 1849 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 172

Pseudobunaea tyrrhena ( Westwood, 1849) *

COMMON NAME (S): Cat’s paw emperor. SYNONYM(S): Pseudobunaea tyrrhena lutea Cooper & Cooper, 2002 ; Alindabunaea reginamasabae Stoneham, 1962 . IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea,

Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia , Rwanda, South Africa,

Togo, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka and Chirundu, in Lusaka Province; Kopa **, in Muchinga Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include four Ulmaceae species ( Trema bracteolata Blume , T. orientalis (L.) Blume,

Celtis africana Burm.f. , and C. pallida Torr. ), one Fagaceae species ( Fagus sp. ), one Meliaceae species

( Ekebergia capensis Sparrm. ), one Rubiaceae ( Psychotria capensis (Eckl.) Vatke ), one Ulmaceae species

( Ulmus sp. ), one Mimosaceae species ( Albizia sp. ) and one Fabaceae species ( Acacia sassa (Willd.)

Baillon ex Drake) ( Distant 1903; Fawcett 1903; Rougeot 1955, 1962; Pinhey 1972b; African Moths

2019). SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Distant 1903; Fawcett 1903; Hampson 1910c; Pinhey 1972b; Rougeot

1955, 1962.

Genus Rohaniella Bouvier, 1927b