Metachrostis perplexa (Saalmüller, 1891)

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 313

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Metachrostis perplexa
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Metachrostis perplexa (Saalm̡ller, 1891)

COMMON NAME(S): Boletobiine Moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles, South Africa, Yemen, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): The taxon is reported to feed on Asystasia gangetica (L.) T.Anderson in the Réunion and Mauritius and on unspecifies Asystasia sp. elsewhere in Africa but the host plants are unknown in Zambia.

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.

Genus Phytometra Haworth, 1809