Filodes costivitralis Guenée, 1862

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 102-103

Filodes costivitralis Guenée, 1862

COMMON NAME (S): Window Pearl.

SYNONYM(S): Filodes productalis Hampson, 1899 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka , in Lusaka Province; Serenje, in Central Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): In the Réunion two Acanthaceae species namely, Thunbergia grandiflora (Roxb. ex Rottl.) Roxb. and Thunbergia sp. and one Malvaceae species ( Hibiscus sp. ) are reported as host plants of the taxon,while one Acanthaceae species ( Thunbergia grandiflora (Roxb. ex Rottl.) Roxb. ) in the host plant of the taxon in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The African Moths (2019) webpage indicates that Hibiscus sp. (Malvaceae) and two Acanthaceae species namely; Thunbergia grandifolia (Roxb. ex Rottl.) Roxb and Thunbergia affinis S.Moore , are larval foodplants for the taxon.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Ghesquière 1942; Guillermet 2009; Hampson 1910c; Martiré & Rochat 2008; Vinson 1938.

Genus Ghesquierellana Berger, 1955