Anarsia agricola Walsingham, 1891

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 34

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scientific name	Anarsia agricola Walsingham, 1891
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Anarsia agricola Walsingham, 1891 View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Dichomeridine Moth. SYNONYM(S): Anarsia gambiensis Strand, 1913e View in CoL .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia , South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Ndola, in Copperbelt Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include three Fabaceae species in Kenya namely, Vachellia xanthophloea (Benth.) P.J.H.Hurter , Vachellia tortilis (Forssk.) Galasso & Banfi and Acacia mellifera (M. Vahl) Benth. ), as well as one

Fabaceae species Vachellia karroo (Hayne) Banfi & Galasso ], in South Africa. Although no host plants for the taxon have been reported for Zambia, these miombo plants are also found in the country and most likely are some of the host plants of the taxon.

SOURCES: Bidzilya 2007; De Prins & De Prins 2022.