Rigema woerdeni ( Snellen, 1872 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 269

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scientific name	Rigema woerdeni ( Snellen, 1872 )
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Rigema woerdeni ( Snellen, 1872)

COMMON NAME (S): Sulphur Frill.

SYNONYM(S): Rigema meridionalis Strand, 1912b .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE)

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province ; Petauke in Eastern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include grasses, Cyperus esculentus L., C. exaltatus Retz. , C. papyrus L., Oryza sativa L. ( Pinhey 1975).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.