Holocerina smilax ( Westwood, 1849 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 165

Holocerina smilax ( Westwood, 1849) ( Fig. 25 )

COMMON NAME (S): Variable Prince. SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mpika and Kopa, in Muchinga Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: one Meliaceae species ( Ekebergia capensis Sparrm. ), two Oleaceae species ( Ligustrum sp. , and Jasminum humile L.), three Anacardiaceae species ( Protorhus longifolia (Bernh.)

Engl., Rhus laevigata L., and R. villosa L.f.), one Fagaceae species ( Quercus robur L.), one Myrtaceae species ( Psidium guajava L.), one Rosaceae species ( Malus sylvestris (L.) Mill.) and one Pinaceae species ( Pinus patula Schiede ex Schltdl. & Cham. ) ( African Moths 2019).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022.

Genus Imbrasia H̡bner, 1819

Figures

FIGURES 23–25. Caterpillars. 23a, b, Cirina forda orientalis—Pallid Emperor (Saturniidae: Saturniinae). 6th Instar larva at Riverside Motel (RIMO) in Kafue, 22 January 2011. 24, Gonimbrasia belina (Westwood, 1894) — Anomalous Emperor or Mopane Worm (Saturniidae: Saturniinae), 5th and 6th instar larvae at RIMO, in Kafue, 17 January 2011. 25, Gonimbrasia belina (Westwood, 1894)—Anomalous Emperor or Mopane Worm (Saturniidae: Saturniinae), 6th instar larva at RIMO, in Kafue, 17 January 2011. © Kind permission of the University of Zambia.