Exelastis montischristi ( Walsingham, 1897b )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 37

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.17341158
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scientific name	Exelastis montischristi ( Walsingham, 1897b )
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Exelastis montischristi ( Walsingham, 1897b) View in CoL

COMMON NAME(S): Plume moth or Pterophorid moth.

SYNONYM(S): Pterophorus cervinicolor Barnes & McDunnough, 1913 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador ( Galápagos Islands), Eswatini, Ethiopia, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Oman, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Ndola, in Copperbelt Province; Solwezi, in Northwestern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1; Kovtunovich et al. 2014.