Agathodes musivalis Guenée, 1854

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 99-100

Agathodes musivalis Guenée, 1854

COMMON NAME (S): Painted Pearl, Grass moth or Crambid Snout Moth. SYNONYM(S): Agathodes chrysalis Hampson, 1908a . IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali,

Mauritius, Mozambique, Republic of Congo, Réunion, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mpika, in Muchinga Province; Ndola, in Copperbelt Province; Mumbwa, in Central Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: three Fabaceae species (i.e. Erythrina caffra Thunb. , E. variegata L. and

Erythrina sp. ) in the Réunion ( Vinson 1938; Guillermet 2009); One Fabaceae species ( Erythrina caffra

Thunb.) in South Africa ( Ghesquière 1942) and two Fabaceae species ( Erythrina variegata L. and E.

abyssinica DC. ) in an unnamed African country or countries ( Sourakov et al. 2015; Poltavsky et al.

2018b). Host plants or larval foodplants of the taxon are not known in Zambia. SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Ghesquière 1942; Guillermet 2009; Poltavsky et el. 2018b; Sourakov et al. 2015; Vinson 1938.

Genus Antigastra Lederer, 1863