Mussidia nigrivenella Ragonot, 1888

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 80-81

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scientific name	Mussidia nigrivenella Ragonot, 1888
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Mussidia nigrivenella Ragonot, 1888 View in CoL

COMMON NAME (S): Black Veined Knothorn.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kafue and Lusaka , in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include: one Poaceae species ( Zea mays L. ), one Malvaceae species ( Gossypium sp. ) and one Sterculiaceae species ( Theobroma cacao L.) in Côte d’Ivoire; one Poaceae species ( Zea mays L. )

in Nigeria; and two Meliaceae species ( Cedrela sp. and Khaya nyassica Stapf ex Baker f. ), two Fabaceae species ( Phaseolus sp. and Physostigma sp. ) and one Chrysobalanaceae species ( Parinari sp. ) in other unnamed parts of Africa. No specific host plants have been identified in Zambia.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1; Lamborn 1914; Moyal & Tran 1989; Pinhey 1975.

Genus Oligochroides Strand, 1909g View in CoL