Leucinodes pseudorbonalis Mally, Korycinska, Agassiz, Hall, Hodgetts & Nuss, 2015

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 107

Leucinodes pseudorbonalis Mally, Korycinska, Agassiz, Hall, Hodgetts & Nuss, 2015

COMMON NAME (S): Grass moth or Crambid Snout Moth. SYNONYM(S): Leucinodes orbonalis sensu auct. nec Guenée, 1854.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE)

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Maldives, Mozambique, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sao Tome & Principe, Tanzania, Uganda, United Arab Emirates,

Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include two Solanaceae species ( Solanum tuberosum L. and S. torvum Sw. ) in the Democratic Republic of Congo; one Ericaceae species ( Vaccinium sp. ) in South and two Solanaceae species ( S.

melongena L. and S. aethiopicum L.) in an unnamed African country or countries.

Afromoths (2019) reports four Solanaceae species ( S. melongena L., S. aethiopicum L., S. torvum Sw.

and S. tuberosum L.) and one Ericaceae species ( Vaccinium sp. ) as larval foodplants of the taxon.

SOURCES: Asselbergs 2008; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Ghesquière 1942; Mally et al. 2015; Pinhey 1975 [as Leucinodes orbonalis ]; Prinsloo & Uys 2015.

Genus Lygropia Lederer, 1863