REVISION OF GENUS ZAMARADA ir 



Z. differens Bastelberger, apparently a savannah species, is the only representative 

 of the genus recorded from the Comoro Islands. The Comoro Island specimen 

 appears to be identical with examples of the species from continental Africa. 



No species of Zamarada has yet been recorded from Mauritius or from the Sey- 

 chelles. 



Biology. Little is known of the immature stages of Zamarada. Singh (1953), 

 who described and figured the chaetotaxy of the larva of Z. excisa Hampson under 

 the name Z. translucida Moore, records the species as a defoliator of Cassia fistula 

 (Leguminosae) . 



The few other Zamarada larvae that have been reared have also fed on leguminous 

 plants. Z. nasuta Warren was reared by G. S. Cotterell in Ghana on the foliage 

 of Dichrostachys cinerea (Linnaeus) Wight & Arnott (recorded as Dichrostachys 

 glomeratus (Forsk.) Chiov.). E. E. Piatt (1921 : 131) reared Z. pulverosa Warren 

 on the foliage of the same plant; this record appears under the name Zamarada 

 secutaria (Guenee) and the host-plant is listed as Dichrostachys nutans Bentham, 

 a synonym of D. cinerea (Linnaeus) Wight & Arnott. A pupa of Z. prolata sp. n. 

 was found on a leaf of Crotalaria pallida Aiton in Uganda (recorded on the data 

 label as Crotalaria striata DC, a synonym of C pallida Aiton). 



A specimen tentatively associated with Z. chrysopa sp. n. from Sokoke Forest 

 in Eastern Kenya was reared from a larva that was found on the foliage of an 

 Ochna sp. (Ochnaceae). In private communications D. G. Sevastopulo writes 

 'The larva was found on Ochna sp. (Ochnaceae), which rather surprised me as I 

 thought Zamarada were Acacia feeders. It pupated without feeding further, so 

 Ochna may not be the food-plant at all' (29.vi.1969). 'The larva pupated under 

 a very thin, transparent web of silk spun across the trough of the leaf (19.vii.1969). 



A. L. H. Townsend reared a number of species of Zamarada at Nakuru in Kenya, 

 but Mr M. J. Clifton has been unable to find any notes relating to them in the 

 Townsend note-books and diaries in the National Museum in Nairobi. In 1937 

 Townsend (1937 : 128-129) published descriptions of the eggs, larvae and pupae 

 of Z. ochrata Warren that he had bred; the larvae were reared on Acacia sp. A 

 specimen of Z. mesotaenia Prout from his collection dated ix. 1940 was reared on 

 Acacia and a specimen of Z. delta sp. n. dated 20. ix. 1940 was also reared on Acacia. 



Check-list of species included in Zamarada 



ZAMARADA Moore 



feeraia-group 

 keraia sp. n. 

 ekphysis sp. n. 

 inermis sp. n. 



ansorgei-gvowp 

 ansorgei Warren 



mt'ntmarta-group 

 minimaria minimaria Swinhoe 



iranica Brandt 

 minimaria arenosa subsp. n. 



latilimbata Rebel 

 townsendi sp. n. 

 eurygnathus sp. n. 

 anacantha sp. n. 

 aureomarginata Pagenstecher 

 griveaudi sp. n. 

 phaeozona Hampson 

 labrys sp. n. 



mesotaenia Prout stat. n. 

 consecuta Prout 

 deceptrix Warren 

 delosis sp. n. 



