Exelastis crepuscularis ( Meyrick, 1909b )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 37

Exelastis crepuscularis ( Meyrick, 1909b)

COMMON NAME(S): Plume moth or Pterophorid moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, S„o Tomé and Príncipe, South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Livingstone, in Southern Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include the Fabaceae species, Alysicarpus vaginalis (L.) DC. Additionally, the African Moths (2019) webpage, includes another Fabaceae species, Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp., as a larval foodplant of the taxon.

SOURCES: African Moths 2019; Catalogue of Life 2017; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Gielis 2003; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-1; Kovtunovich et al. 2014.