Patania balteata ( Fabricius, 1798 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 112

Patania balteata ( Fabricius, 1798)

COMMON NAME (S): Grass moth or Crambid Snout Moth. SYNONYM(S): Botys crocealis Duponchel, 1834 ; Botys aurantiacalis Fischer von R̂slerstamm, 1840; Botys mysolalis Walker, 1866a ; Botys aurea Butler, 1879c ; Syllepte irregularis Rothschild, 1915b ; Syllepte evergestialis Strand, 1918c ; Pleuroptya africalis Leraut, 2005 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Australia (New South Wales and Queensland), Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Hawaii, Hungary, India,

Italy, Japan, Korea, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Republic of

Congo, Réunion, Romania, Senegal, Serbia and Montenegro, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka,

Sudan, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include Boehmeria stipularis (Urticaceae) and the Anacardiaceae species Anacardium occidentale L., Rhus cotinus L. a nd Pistacia terebinthus L. in Réunion, the Anacardiaceae species Anacardium occidentale L. in Madagascar and Pseudospondias microcarpa (A.Rich.) Engl. in the Democratic Republicof Congo. The taxon is also known to feed on the following Anacardiaceae species elsewhere in Africa Toxicodendron vernicifluum (Stokes) F.A. Barkley and Cotinus coggygria

Scop. This species of moths also feeds on the following Fagaceae , Quercus serrata Murray and Castanea

sp.

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022.