Ghesquierellana hirtusalis ( Walker, 1859c )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 103

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-C428-FFBF-62F6-FD94FDA29EC9
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Ghesquierellana hirtusalis ( Walker, 1859c )
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Ghesquierellana hirtusalis ( Walker, 1859c) View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Blotched Pearl. SYNONYM(S): Phostria pallas Meyrick, 1936 ; Polygrammodes borbonica Viette, 1976 . IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi,

Mali, Mozambique, Namibia View in CoL , Réunion, Sao Tome & Principe, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia,

Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka and Chirundu, in Lusaka Province; Ndola, in Copperbelt Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include: two Moraceae species ( Ficus vallis-choudae Delile and F. mucuso Welw.

ex Ficalho in the Democratic Republic of Congo; one Moraceae species ( Ficus mauritiana Lam. ) in the

Réunion and three Moraceae species ( Ficus carica L., F. trichopoda Baker and F. sur ), as wel as one

Malvaceae species ( Gossypium sp. ) in an unnamed African country or countries.

The African Moths (2019) webpage lists six Moraceae species (i.e. Ficus mauritiana Lam. , F. sur Forssk.,

F. mucoso Welw. ex Ficalho , F. vallis-choudae Delile , F. trichopoda Baker and F. carica L.) and one

Malvaceae View in CoL species ( Gossypium sp. ) as larval foodplants for the taxon. SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Ghesquière, 1942; Pinhey 1975; Poltavsky et al.

2018b; Viette, 1976.

Genus Glyphodes Guenée, 1854 View in CoL