Platylesches rasta Evans, 1937

Collins, Steve C., 2017, Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 12. New information and corrections, Zootaxa 4312 (3), pp. 471-496 : 490

Platylesches rasta Evans, 1937

SCC identified a specimen of P. rasta amongst adults of P. moritili (Wallengren) f. delta ( Cock & Congdon 2013) that TCEC reared from Parinari curatellifolia from ‘Mulanje Pond’, under Mlanje Mountain, Malawi, an area of rough scrub near the murram road to Mount Zion from Mulanje town. At the time it was assumed to be a lightly marked individual of Platylesches moritili f. delta and it was only by chance that this individual was photographed (Figure 20.3). The caterpillar must have been a tube maker ( Cock & Congdon 2013, Figure 70) and the pupa must have been plain white ( Cock & Congdon 2013, Figure 76.4) or they would have been noticed as different and documented.