Exelastis crepuscularis ( Meyrick, 1909b )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 37

Exelastis crepuscularis ( Meyrick, 1909b)

COMMON NAME (S): Plume moth or Pterophorid moth. SYNONYM(S): None. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, S„o Tomé and Príncipe, South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia,

Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Livingstone, in Southern Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include the Fabaceae species, Alysicarpus vaginalis (L.) DC. Additionally, the

African Moths (2019) webpage, includes another Fabaceae species, Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp., as a larval foodplant of the taxon. SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Gielis 2003; IUCN Red List of Threatened

Species 2017-1; Kovtunovich et al. 2014.