Botyodes diniasalis ( Walker, 1859c )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 100-101

Botyodes diniasalis ( Walker, 1859c)

COMMON NAME (S): Sinuous Pearl.

SYNONYM(S): Pyrausta capnosalis Caradja, 1925 ; Syllepte kosemponis Strand, 1918c .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Japan, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Namibia , Nigeria, Portugal, Russia, Siera Leone, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Chingola, in Copperbelt Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include: two Salicaceae species ( Salix pentandra L. and Populus ciliate Wall. ex

Royle) and one Malvaceae species ( Grewia asiatica L.). SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1; Pinhey 1975; Poltavsky et al. 2018b.

Genus Cadarena Moore, 1886