Achaea lienardi ( Boisduval, 1833 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 329-330

Achaea lienardi ( Boisduval, 1833) ( Fig. 36 )

COMMON NAME(S): Lienard’s Achaea .

SYNONYM(S): Ophiusa cerbera Guenée, 1852c ; Achaea chamaeleon Guenée, 1852c ; Ophiusa zabulon Guenée, 1852c ; Achaea spectatura Walker, 1858c ; Achaea intermedia Wallengren, 1856 ; Achaea ophismoides Walker, 1869b ; Achaea partita Walker, 1869b ; Ophisma externesignata Saalm ̧ller, 1880; Achaea hilaris Pl ̂tz, 1880.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Réunion, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Togo, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kaoma and Mongu, in Western Province; Solwezi, in Northwestern Province; Lusaka, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOL.STPLANT(S): Host plants include: two Rutaceae species ( Citrus sp. and Ptaeroxylon obliquum (Thunb.) Radlk. ), one Sapindaceae species ( Pappea capensis Eckl. & Zeyh. ), one Sapotaceae species ( Sideroxylon inerme L.), one Anacardiaceae species ( Ozoroa mucronata ( Bernh. ex Krauss) R.Fern. & A.Fern. ), one Caesalpiniaceae species ( Schotia latifolia Jacq. ) and one Capparidaceae species ( Maerua triphylla A.Rich. ) in South Africa ( Prinsloo & Uys 2015; Taylor 1949); one Anacardiaceae species ( Anacardium occidentale L.) in Nigeria ( Asogwa et al. 2008) and one Capparidaceae species ( Maerua sp. ), one Sapindaceae species ( Pappea sp. ), one Anacardiaceae species ( Rhus sp. ), one Caesalpiniaceae species ( Schotia sp. ), one Sapotaceae species ( Sideroxylon sp. ) and one Rutaceae species ( Ptaeroxylon sp. ) in unnamed African country or countries ( Hacker & Hausmann 2010). The African Moths (2019) webpage further lists the following as larval food plants: four Fabaceae species (i.e. Acacia mearnsii De Wild. , Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi & Galasso , Senegalia ataxacantha (DC.) Kyal. & Boatwr. and Acacia decurrens (J.C.Wendl.) Willd. ; one Sapotaceae species ( Sideroxylon inerme L.), one Rutaceae species ( Ptaeroxylon obliquum (Thunb.) Radlk. ), one Sapindaceae species ( Allophylus decipiens Radlk. ), two Euphorbiaceae species ( Croton rivularis M̧ll.Arg. and Ricinus communis L.), one Pinaceae species ( Pinus patula ) and one Rhamnaceae species ( Scutia myrtina Kurz ).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Asogwa et al. 2008; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hacker & Hausmann 2010; Hampson 1893; Prinsloo & Uys 2015; Taylor 1949.

Figures

FIGURES 35–37. Adult moths. 35a, Hippotion celerio (Linnaeus, 1758)—Silver Striped Hawk or Vine Hawk (Sphingidae: Macroglossinae) collected using a black light trap in Lusaka, 30 December 2010, dorsal view; 35b, ditto, ventral view. 36a, Hippotion eson (Cramer, 1779)—Common Striped Hawk (Sphingidae: Macroglossinae) collected at a black light trap in Lusaka, 30 December 2010, dorsal view; 36b, ditto, ventral view. 37a, Nephele comma Hopffer, 1857—Comma Nephele, male (Sphingidae: Macroglossinae) collected by a black light trap in Lusaka, 4 January 2011, dorsal view; 37b, ditto, ventral view. Scale bar 2 cm. © Kind permission of the University of Zambia.