Beralade pelodes (Tams, 1937)

FAMILY	Lasiocampidae
SUBFAMILY	Lasiocampinae
GENUS	Beralade
SPECIES	pelodes
AUTHOR	(Tams, 1937)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Chilena pelodes sp. n.
TYPE LOCALITY	[Kenya], Nakuru, bred viii.1936, leg. A. H. L. Townsend.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Holotype ♂, BMNH; Allotype ♀, BMNH.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Tams W. H. T. 1937. Three new East African moths. - Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 13 (1935-1936)(3-4):105-106, pl. 1.
PAGINATION	105; pl. 1, figs 1, 2

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Kenya		Agassiz D. J. L. & Harper D. M. 2009. The Macrolepidoptera fauna of Acacia in the Kenyan Rift Valley (Part 1). - Tropical Lepidoptera Research 19(1):4-8.	6

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Fabaceae	Acacia xanthophloea	Kenya	Agassiz D. J. L. & Harper D. M. 2009. The Macrolepidoptera fauna of Acacia in the Kenyan Rift Valley (Part 1). - Tropical Lepidoptera Research 19(1):4-8.	6
Fabaceae	Acacia sp.	East Africa	Sevastopulo D. G. 1975. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2 - moths (Heterocera). - Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society 34(309):175-184.	183
Fabaceae	Acacia tortilis	Kenya	Townsend A. L. H. 1937. Miscellaneous notes on the early stages of certain Heterocera. - Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 13 (1936)(3-4):107-131.	114 (as Acacia thorn)

* Description of the larva in A. L. H. Townsend (1937: 115).