Elophila africalis
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Zambia, P. O. Box 32379, Lusaka, Zambia
- 2. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium & Australian National Insect Collection, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia
Description
Elophila africalis (Hampson, 1906c)
COMMON NAME(S): Grass moth or Crambid Snout Moth.
SYNONYM(S): Cymoriza linealis Moore, 1888; Nymphula osculatrix Meyrick, 1933; Isopteryx enixalis Swinhoe, 1885.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kafue and Lusaka, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include two aquatic plants, one from the family Salviniaceae (i.e. Azolla pinnata R. Br., commonly called the water fern) and the other from the family Araceae (i.e. Pistia stratiotes L., commonly called, water cabbage or water lettuce,). Another larval foodplant but yet to be identified is from the grass family Poaceae, a Vossia sp.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Agassiz 2012; De Prins & De Prins 2022.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Hampson
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Crambidae
- Genus
- Elophila
- Species
- africalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Elophila africalis (Hampson, 1906) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Hampson, G. F. (1906 c) Descriptions of new Pyralidae of the subfamilies Hydrocampinae and Scopariinae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7, 18 (107 & 108), 373 - 393 & 455 - 472. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 19366634] https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222930608562650
- Moore, F. (1888) Description of new genera and species of Lepidoptera Heterocera, collected by Reverend J. H. Hocking, chiefly in the Kangra District. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1888, 390 - 412. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 31825875]
- Meyrick, E. (1933) n. k. Exotic Microlepidoptera, Marlborough, 4 (12 - 14), 353 - 448. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 60387025]
- Swinhoe, C. (1885) On the Lepidoptera of Bombay and the Deccan. Heterocera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1885 (2 - 4), 287 - 307, pls. 20 - 21, 447 - 476, pls. 27 - 28 & 852 - 886, pls. 56 - 57. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 23357321]
- African Moths (2019) Not available anymore from https: // africanmoths. com / (accessed 23 November 2019)
- Agassiz, D. J. L. (2012) The Acentropinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) of Africa. Zootaxa, 3494 (1), 1 - 73. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3494.1.1
- De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2022) Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication. Available from: https: // www. afromoths. net / (accessed 20 June 2023)