Earias biplaga Walker, 1866b

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 385

Earias biplaga Walker, 1866b

COMMON NAME (S): Spiny Bollworm or Cotton pest

SYNONYM(S): Earias citrina Saalmuller, 1884 ; Earias crocea Mabille, 1900 ; Earias fuscociliana Snellen, 1872 ; Earias maculana Snellen, 1872 ; Earias plaga Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Great Britain, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia , Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Réunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome & Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Livingstone, in Southern Province; Portion of the Southern Africa biodiversity conservation four corners area in Zambia in Northwestern, Western and Southern Provinces of the country.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): A major pest of cotton in the Four Corners area [i.e. Border areas of Angola, Botswana, Namibia , Zambia and Zimbabwe].

SOURCES: Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Gardiner 2004.