Table 7.
Availability of edible caterpillars and their host plants.
| Scientific Name | Availability | Food Behavior |
Host Plants | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anaphe infracta | January to December, August to September | Polyphagous | Bridelia minrantha, Cynometra alexandri Triumfetta manrophylla Alhizzia fnstiyiata | [100] |
| Bunaea alcinoe | June to August | Oligophage | Pycnanthus angolensis, Dacryodes edulis | [99,101] |
| Cirina forda | June to August, September to December | Polyphagous | Albizia antunesiana, Erythrophleum suaveolens, Baillonella toxisperma, Burkea africana, Crossopteryx febrifuga, Erythrophleum africanum, Vitellaria paradoxa | [99,102,103] |
| Cirina butyrospermi | June to August | Monophage | Vitellaria paradoxa, | [37,101,104] |
| Elaphrodes lactea | December to January | Oligophage | Albizia ferruginea | [99] |
| Imbrasia belina | December to January, April to May | Monophage | Colophospermum mopane | [35] |
| Imbrasia obscura | October to February | Monophage | Pentaclethra macrophylla | [99] |
| Imbrasia epimethea | June to September, January to February | Oligophage | Funtumia africana, Dacryodes edulis | [99,101,103] |
| I. truncata | August | Oligophage | Amphimas pterocarpoides, Petertianthus macrocarpus, Piptadeniastrum africanum | [75,103] |
| I. oyemensis | June to August, August to September | Monophage | Entandrophragma cylindricum | [101] |