LARVAL HOSTPLANT (S): Larval food plants include: one Apocynaceae species (Nerium oleander L.) in the Réunion (Martiré & Rochat, 2008); one Apocynaceae species (Rauwolfia sp.) and one Rubiaceae species (Fleroya stipulosa (DC.) Y. F. Deng) in Ghana (Wagner et al. 2008); two Apocynaceae species (Nerium oleander L. and Tabernaemontana divaricata (L.) R. Br. ex Roem. & Schult.) in the Seychelles (Legrand 1966; Matyot 2005); one Apocynaceae species (Nerium oleander L.) and one Rubiaceae species (Gardenia sp.) in Nigeria (MacNulty 1970); six Apocynaceae species (Funtumia elastica (Preuss) Stapf, Tabernaemontana divaricate (L.) R. Br. ex Roem. & Schult., Hunteria umbellata (K. Schum.) Hallier f., Voacanga africana Stapf ex Scott-Elliot, V. thouarsii Roem. & Schult., and Strophanthus hispidus DC.) in Côte d’Ivoire (Vuattoux et al. 1989); three Apocynaceae species (Nerium oleander L., Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don and Rhazya stricta Decne.) in Saudi Arabia (Wiltshire 1986); one Rubiaceae species (Sarcocephalus latifolius (Sm.) E. A. Bruce) in Cameroon (Schultze 1914) and three Apocynaceae species (Vinca minor L., Adenium obesum (Forssk.) Roem. & Schult. and Nerium oleander) in an unnamed African country or countries (Linnaeus 1758; Walsingham & Hampson 1896; Distant 1903). The following species of plants are listed as larval foodplants of this taxon in the countries listed above by the African Moths (2019) webpage: ten Apocynaceae species (Nerium oleander L., Vinca minor L., Adenium obesum (Forssk.) Roem. & Schult., Rauvolfia caffra Sond., Carissa macrocarpa (Eckl.) A. DC., Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don, Picralima nitida (Stapf) T. Durand & H. Durand, Tabernaemontana divaricata (L.) R. Br. ex Roem. & Schult., Cascabela thevetia (L.) Lippold, and Voacanga thouarsii Roem. & Schult.), three Rubiaceae species (Fleroya stipulosa (DC.) Y. F. Deng, Burttdavya nyassica Hoyle and Gardenia jasminoides J. Ellis); one Metteniusaceae species (Apodytes dimidiata E. Mey. ex Arn.); one Poaceae species (Bambusa sp.) and one Anacardiaceae species (Mangifera indica L.).
Sumber: Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera)