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Main Authors: Mbata, Keith J., Prins, Jurate De
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Published: Zenodo 2023
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18633292
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  • <p><b><i>Glyphodes bicolor</i> (Swainson, 1821)</b></p><p>COMMON NAME(S): Bicoloured Pearl.</p><p>SYNONYM(S): <i>Eudioptis perspicillalis</i> Zeller, 1852; <i>Glyphodes diurnalis</i> Guenée, 1854; <i>Glyphodes parvalis</i> Walker, 1866a.</p><p>IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).</p><p>DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.</p><p>LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.</p><p>LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include three Apocynaceae species (<i>Carissa carandas</i> L., <i>Nerium oleander</i> L., and <i>Alstonia scholaris</i> (L.) R. Br.), two Moraceae species (<i>Ficus benghalensis</i> L. and <i>Artocarpus integer</i> (Thunb.) Merr.), one Verbenaceae species (<i>Tectona grandis</i> L.f.) and one Fabaceae species (<i>Desmodium oojeinense</i> (Roxb.) H.Ohashi). Without specifying in which of the countries above they are found, the African Moths (2019) webpage lists the following as larval foodplants of the taxon: three Apocynaceae species (<i>Alstonia scholaris</i> (L.) R. Br., <i>Carissa carandas</i> L. and <i>Nerium oleander</i> L.), two Moraceae species (<i>Artocarpus integer</i> Thunb.) Merr.) and <i>Ficus benghalensis</i> L., one Fabaceae species (<i>Desmodium oojeinense</i> (Roxb.) H.Ohashi) and one Lamiaceae species (<i>Tectona grandis</i> L.f. [Common Name: Teak].</p><p>SOURCES: African moths, 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Poltavsky <i>et al</i>. 2018b.</p>