Marwitzia dichocrocis ( Hampson, 1913a )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 108-109

Marwitzia dichocrocis ( Hampson, 1913a)

COMMON NAME (S): Yellow Cribbage.

SYNONYM(S): Dichocrocis polystidzalis Hampson, 1918d .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval food plants include a yet to be identified Poaceae species i.e. Sorghum sp. The African Moths (2019) webpage also lists a yet to be identified Ricinus sp. (Euphorbiaceae) and a Sorghum sp. (Poaceae) as larval foodplants for the taxon. No specific host plants or larval foodplants have been identified for the taxon in Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975.

Genus Nausinoe H̡bner, 1825