Botyodes diniasalis ( Walker, 1859c )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 100-101

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.17343329

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C42D-FFBD-62F6-F8BCFE2A9B6A

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scientific name

Botyodes diniasalis ( Walker, 1859c )
status

 

Botyodes diniasalis ( Walker, 1859c)

COMMON NAME(S): Sinuous Pearl.

SYNONYM(S): Pyrausta capnosalis Caradja, 1925 ; Syllepte kosemponis Strand, 1918c .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Japan, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Namibia, Nigeria, Portugal, Russia, Siera Leone, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Chingola, in Copperbelt Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include: two Salicaceae species ( Salix pentandra L. and Populus ciliate Wall. ex Royle) and one Malvaceae species ( Grewia asiatica L.).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1; Pinhey 1975; Poltavsky et al. 2018b.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Crambidae

Genus

Botyodes

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