Pycnarmon diaphana ( Cramer, 1777 )

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C43F-FFA8-62F6-FAA8FAB09C12
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Pycnarmon diaphana ( Cramer, 1777 )
status

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

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka and Chirundu, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): In the Seychelles, two Sapotaceae species ( Planchonella obovata (R.Br.) Pierre and Sideroxylon ferrugineum Hook. & Arn. are the host plants of the taxon. No host plants of the species are known in Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Gerlach & Matyot 2006; Hampson 1899a; Legrand 1966.