Eldana saccharina Walker 1865
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
Eldana saccharina Walker, 1865b *
COMMON NAME(S): African sugar-cane borer, African sugarcane stalk borer or Eldana borer.
SYNONYM(S): Ancylosidia conipyga Strand, 1913c.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mazabuka [Nakambala Sugar Estates] *, in Southern Province; Chirundu, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): This taxon is indigenous to Africa. It is a pest of sugarcane.
SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Sohati et al. 2001.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Pyralidae
- Genus
- Eldana
- Species
- saccharina
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eldana saccharina Walker, 1865 sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Walker, F. (1865 b) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXXII. Supplement Part 2. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 32, i - iv, 323 - 706. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 38916881]
- Strand, E. (1913 c) Zoologische Ergebnisse der Expedition des Herrn G. Tessmann nach S ¸ d-Kamerun und Spanisch-Guinea. Lepidoptera IV. (Verschiedene Familien). Archiv f ¸ r Naturgeschichte, 78 (A) (12), 30 - 84, pls. 1 - 2. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 13317674]
- 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)
- Sohati, P. H., Musonda, E. M. & Mukanga, M. (2001) Distribution of cereal stem borers in Zambia and release of Cotesia flavipes Cameron, an exotic natural enemy of Chilo partellus (Swinhoe) Insect Science and Its Application, 21 (4), 311 - 316. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 1742758400008407