Cadra cautella ( Walker, 1863b )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 78-79

Cadra cautella ( Walker, 1863b)

COMMON NAME (S): Almond moth, Tropical warehouse moth, Dried currant moth or Fig moth.

SYNONYM(S): Cadra defectella Walker, 1864b ; Nephopteryx desuetella Walker, 1866b ; Ephestia passulella Barrett, 1875 ; Cryptoblabes formosella Wileman & South, 1918 ; Ephestia rotundatella Turati, 1930a ; Ephestia pelopis Turner, 1947 ; Ephestia irakella Amsel, 1959 ; Eurhodope decludti Leraut G., 2019 .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan distribution including Easter Islands, Great Britain, Hispaniola, Iran, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Stored products pest: The tropical warehouse moth is a major pest of a range of stored foods, especially cereals (maize, rice, wheat, sorghum, millet, oats) flours and other cereal products, dried cassava, groundnuts, cocoa beans, dried mango, dates, nutmeg, mace, cowpeas and other dried stored products. Species not yet assessed for the IUCN Red List, and also is not in the Catalogue of Life .

SOURCES: Cabi.org. 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1.

Genus Ematheudes Zeller, 1867