Palpita elealis ( Walker, 1859c )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 111

Palpita elealis ( Walker, 1859c)

COMMON NAME (S): Grass moth or Crambid Snout Moth.

SYNONYM(S): Cryptographis rogenhoferi Lederer, 1863 ; Eudioptis beninalis Pl ̂tz, 1880; Phakellura peridromella Mabille, 1881 ; Glyphodes angustimargo Warren, 1914b .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Mozambique, Republic of Congo, Sao Tome & Principe, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Two Apocynaceae species ( Rauwolfia vomitoria Afzel. and Tabernanthe sp. ) are reported as host plants of the taxon in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Apocynaceae species Rauwolfia vomitoria Afzel.

and Tabernanthe sp. are indicated as larval foodplants by the African Moths (2019) webpage,

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Ghesquière 1942; Hampson 1910c.