Etiella zinckenella ( Treitschke, 1832 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 80

Etiella zinckenella ( Treitschke, 1832)

COMMON NAME (S): Zincken’s Knothorn or the pulse pod borer moth.

SYNONYM(S): Tinea marginella Fabricius, 1781 ; Etiella etiella Treitschke, 1835 ; Chilo colonellus Costa, 1836 ; Chilo majorellus Costa, 1836 ; Mella dymnusalis Walker, 1859d ; Rhamphodes heraldella Guenée, 1862 ; Alata anticalis Walker, 1863b ; Arucha indicatalis Walker, 1863b ; Modiana scitivittalis Walker, 1863b ; Assara albicostalis Walker, 1863c ; Alata hastiferella Walker, 1866b; Pempelia spartiella Rondani, 1876 ; Crambus sabulinus Butler, 1879d ; Etiella sincerella Meyrick, 1879 ; Etiella madagascariensis Saalm ̧ller, 1880; Etiella schisticolor Zeller, 1881 ; Etiella villosella Hulst, 1887 ; Etiella rubribasella Hulst, 1890 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia , Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena , Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Livingstone, in Southern Province ; Kopa, in Muchinga Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants of the taxon include two Fabaceae species Crotalaria capensis Jacq. and Abrus precatorius L. [commonly called, Jequirity bean or Rosary pea].

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1.

Genus Hypsotropa Zeller, 1848a