Heniocha apollonia ( Cramer, 1779 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 163-164

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C4EC-FF7A-62F6-F8CFFB129BCA

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scientific name

Heniocha apollonia ( Cramer, 1779 )
status

 

Heniocha apollonia ( Cramer, 1779) View in CoL *

COMMON NAME (S): Southern Marbled Emperor.

SYNONYM(S): Saturnia flavida Butler, 1877c ; Saturnia terpsichorina Westwood, 1881a ; Heniocha lindti Gr ̧nberg, 1910b; Heniocha apollina Gaede, 1927 ; Heniocha divisa Bryk, 1939 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia , South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kafue , Chongwe ** and Lusaka , in Lusaka Province; Monze and Victoria Falls , in the Southern Province ; Kopa, in Muchinga Province ; Sesheke in Western Province .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: two Fabaceae species ( Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi & Galasso and Acacia mearnsii De Wild. ) in South Africa ( Oberprieler 1995.) and one Fabaceae species ( A. pubescens (Vent.)

R.Br.) in an unnamed country in Africa ( Pinhey 1972b) . No larval foodplants of the taxon have been reported for Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Butler 1877d; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Oberprieler 1995; Pinhey 1972b.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Saturniidae

Genus

Heniocha

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