Marasmia trapezalis ( Guenée, 1854 )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 107-108

Marasmia trapezalis ( Guenée, 1854)

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

SYNONYM(S): Botys creonalis Walker, 1859c ; Botys neoclesalis Walker, 1859c ; Botys suspicalis Walker, 1859c ; Botys convectalis

Walker, 1866a; Cnaphalocrocis bifurcalis Snellen, 1880c ; Dolichosticha perinephes Meyrick, 1886b ; Bradina andresi Rebel, 1912a .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Oman, Réunion, Saint Helena , Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include Poaceae species; Zea mays L. , Sorghum sp. and Panicum trichocladum K.Schum. in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Uganda. The taxon is also known to consume the following Poaceae species elsewhere in Africa ; Oryza sp. , Imperata cylindrica (L.) Raeusch, Brachiaria sp. , Oryza sativa L., Panicum maximum Jacq. , Pennisetum clandestinum Hochst. ex Chiov. , Paspalum notatum Fl ̧ggé, Saccharum officinarum L., Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench; Triticum aestivum L.

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022.

Genus Maruca Walker, 1859b