Cleopatrina bilinea ( Walker, 1855d )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 122

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17343393
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Cleopatrina bilinea ( Walker, 1855d )
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Cleopatrina bilinea ( Walker, 1855d) View in CoL

COMMON NAME(S): Twin Line Lappet.

SYNONYM(S): Bombix bilineata Mabille, 1884a ; Pachypasa auriflua Aurivillius, 1909 View in CoL .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include Annona senegalensis Pers. (Annonaceae) , Terminalia glaucescens Planch. ex Benth. (Combretaceae) , Crossopteryx febrifuga (Afzel. ex G.Don) Benth. (Rubiaceae) and Bridelia ferruginea Benth. ( Euphorbiaceae ) in Côte d’Ivoire; Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh. (Myrtaceae) , Bauhinia reticulata DC. (Fabaceae) and Annona senegalensis Pers. (Annonaceae) , in Nigeria; Bauhinia reticulata DC. ( Fabaceae ) and Annona senegalensis Pers. (Annonaceae) in Cameroon. No host plants of the taxon are known in Zambia. Additionally, the African Moths (2019) webpage lists the following as larval foodplants of the taxon: The avocado plant, Persea americana Mill. (Lauraceae) and Protea angolensis Welw. ( Proteaceae ).