Angustalius malacellus ( Duponchel, 1836 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 90

Angustalius malacellus ( Duponchel, 1836)

COMMON NAME (S): Silvered Brown Veneer.

SYNONYM(S): Crambus hapaliscus Zeller, 1852 ; Crambus concinellus Walker, 1863 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Crete, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Italy, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia , Portugal, Réunion, Russia, Rwanda, Sardinia, Sicily, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania, Turkey, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka , in Lusaka Province; Chisamba, in Central Province ; Livingstone, in Southern Province .

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): The larvae of the taxon, feed on grasses ( Poaceae ) and have also often been reported to feed on maize plant crop ( Zea mays L. ) also in the grass family Poaceae , causing severe damage.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Kopij 2006.

Genus Aurotalis Bleszynski, 1970