Achyra coelatalis
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
Achyra coelatalis (Walker, 1859d)
COMMON NAME(S): Grass moth or Crambid Snout Moth.
SYNONYM(S): Anerastia aurantiaca Rothschild, 1921b; Loxostege fredi Amsel, 1961; Sceliodes nodiferalis Gaede, 1917c; Scopula massalis Walker, 1859c.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Afghanistan, Australia, Botswana, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, India, Iran, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Oman, Réunion, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Togo, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants are various grasses (in the grass Family, Poaceae), including cereal grasses i.e. Sorghum sp., Oryza sativa L. [Asian rice, but most commonly referred to in English as rice], Pennisetum americanum (L.) Leeke; [Pearl millet] and Zea mays L. [cereal grain crop or cereal grass commonly called maize].
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Kopij 2006.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Crambidae
- Genus
- Achyra
- Species
- coelatalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Achyra coelatalis (Walker, 1859) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Walker, F. (1859 d) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XIX. Pyralides. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv + 799 - 1036. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 38886233]
- Rothschild, W. (1921 b) On the Lepidoptera collected by Capt. A. Buchanan in Northern Nigeria and the Southern Sahara in 1919 - 1920. Geometridae. Novitates Zoologicae, 28 (2), 215 - 229. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 3152572]
- Gaede, M. (1917 c) Neue Lepidopteren des Berliner Zoologischen Museums. I. Aethiopische Pyralididen. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 8 (3), 385 - 401. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 30243840]
- Walker, F. (1859 c) n. k. In: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XVIII. Pyralides. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - iv + 509 - 798. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 38951871]
- African Moths (2019) Not available anymore from https: // africanmoths. com / (accessed 23 November 2019)
- 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)
- Kopij, G. (2006) Lepidoptera fauna of Lesotho. Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 49 B (1 - 2), 137 - 180. [http: // www. isez. pan. krakow. pl / journals / azc / pdf / azc _ i / 49 B (1 - 2) / 11. pdf] https: // doi. org / 10.3409 / 000000006783995256