Pioneabathra olesialis ( Walker, 1859c )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 96-97

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15196522
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C411-FFB9-62F6-F8A0FBD29B6A
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Pioneabathra olesialis ( Walker, 1859c )
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Pioneabathra olesialis ( Walker, 1859c)

COMMON NAME(S): Grass moth or Crambid Snout Moth.

SYNONYM(S): Pionea brevialis Walker, 1859 ; Botys divisalis Lederer, 1863 ; Scopula eximialis Walker, 1866a ; Mnesictena pactolina Meyrick, 1887 ; Pionea holoxuthalis Hampson, 1908a ; Mimasura larseni Wiltshire, 1985 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Australia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, India, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Oman, Republic of Congo, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Yemen, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mkushi, in Central Province; Kafue, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include one Euphorbiaceae species ( Flueggea virosa (Roxb. ex Willd.) Royle ) and one Solanaceae species ( Solanum sp. )

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c; Poltavsky et al. 2018b.