Parapoynx stagnalis ( Zeller, 1852 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 89

Parapoynx stagnalis ( Zeller, 1852)

COMMON NAME (S): Rice Caseworm, Rice Case Bearer or Rice case worm.

SYNONYM(S): Hydrocampa depunctalis Guenée, 1854 ; Zebronia decussalis Walker, 1859b ; Cataclysta vestigialis Snellen, 1880a ; Hydrocampa hillii Tepper, 1890 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Australia (Queensland, Northern Territory), Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Philippines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mazabuka, in Southern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include one aquatic plant in the family Hydrocharitaceae ( Hydrilla verticillata (L.f.) Royle), one Euphorbiaceae species ( Cleistanthus sp. ) and four grass species in the family Poaceae (the crop plant Oryza sativa L. or rice and the grasses Panicum carinatum J. Presl. , Eragrostis sp. and Paspalum sp. ).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Agassiz 2012; De Prins & De Prins 2022.