Chilo orichalcociliella ( Strand, 1911j ), Strand, 1911

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 91-92

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C414-FF82-62F6-F96DFBD79ACA

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scientific name

Chilo orichalcociliella ( Strand, 1911j )
status

 

Chilo orichalcociliella ( Strand, 1911j) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Spangled Grass Moth.

SYNONYM(S): Diatraea argyrolepia Hampson, 1919c .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include yet to be identified grass species ( Poaceae ), and the grass crop species Sorghum sp. and Zea mays L. in Madagascar.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975; Strand 1911j; Viette 1971.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Crambidae

Genus

Chilo

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