Eldana saccharina Walker, 1865b

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Eldana saccharina Walker, 1865b
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Eldana saccharina Walker, 1865b View in CoL *

COMMON NAME (S): African sugar-cane borer, African sugarcane stalk borer or Eldana borer.

SYNONYM(S): Ancylosidia conipyga Strand, 1913c .

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mazabuka [Nakambala Sugar Estates] *, in Southern Province ; Chirundu, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): This taxon is indigenous to Africa. It is a pest of sugarcane.

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Sohati et al. 2001.