Callopistria maillardi ( Guenée, 1862 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 401

Callopistria maillardi ( Guenée, 1862)

COMMON NAME (S): White Tangle. SYNONYM(S): Callopistria recurvata Moore, 1882 ; Callopistria nauticorum Tams, 1935b ; Callopistria pseudintermissa Viette, 1965b .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: British Indian Ocean Territory, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, China, Comoros, Cook Islands, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, French Polynesia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Japan, Kenya,

Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, New Zealand, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Republic of

Congo, Réunion, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Taiwan, Sao Tome & Principe, Tanzania, Uganda,

Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe).

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): In Madagascar, Pellaea viridis (Pteridaceae) is the larval foodplant of the taxon, while Nephrolepis biserrata (Sw.) Schott (Lomariopsidaceae) is the larval foodplant in the Réunion. Asplenium nidus

L. ( Aspleniaceae ), Adiantum sp. (Pteridaceae) and Lygodium sp. (Lygodiaceae) are larval foodplants elsewhere in Africa . The wasp Enicospilus mauritii (Ichneumonidae) is the parasitoid of the taxon in the

Réunion ( Rousse & van Noort 2014).

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Pinhey 1975; Rousse & van Noort 2014.