The Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) fauna of the woody savannah belt in Mali, West Africa
Author
Poltavsky, Alexander N.
Author
Kravchenko, Vasiliy D.
Author
Traore, Mohammed M.
Author
Traore, Sekou F.
Author
Gergely, Petrányi
Author
Witt, Thomas J.
Author
Sulak, Harry
Author
Beck, T.
Author
Junnila, Amy
Author
Revay, Edita E.
Author
Doumbia, Seydou
Author
Beier, John C.
Author
Muller, Gunter C.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-08-07
4457
1
39
69
journal article
29079
10.11646/zootaxa.4457.1.2
01eab137-57cf-4d19-87d9-0427cd4e0862
1175-5326
PMC6498428
30314179
1457559
2A372679-102F-4E3E-8830-8DD3A799ED80
49.
Palpita vitrealis
(
Rossi, 1794
)
Synonymy follows
Nuss
et al.
(
2003
–2018):
=
Pyralis unionalis
Hübner, 1796
.
Material
:
13 ex.
Mali
,
Bamako
,
Ouronina
12°5'39.78"N
8°24'3.16"W
, 21–
28.01.2014
, leg.
Kravchenko
et al
., 421 ex. same data except the date 14.05.–
28.10.2014
(
SMNH
)
.
Distribution:
Cosmopolitan. In Africa:
Cape
Verde
,
Central
African Republic
,
Comoros
,
DR
Congo
,
Ethiopia
,
Gambia
,
Ghana
,
Kenya
,
Lesotho
,
Liberia
,
Madagascar
,
Mauritius
,
Réunion
,
Seychelles
,
South
Africa
,
Tanzania
,
Uganda
,
Yemen
,
Zambia
,
Zimbabwe
(
De Prins & De Prins 2018
) and
Mali
(new record).
Also in Australasia:
Australia
;
Oriental
:
South
Asia; Palaearctic:
Canary Islands
,
Japan
,
Madeira
,
South
Europe (
De Prins & De Prins 2018
).
Host-plants:
Oleaceae
:
Fraxinus
sp.,
Jasminum auriculatum
Vahl
,
J. dichotomum
Vahl
,
J. fluminense
Vell.
,
J. officinale
L.,
J. sambac
(L.) Aiton,
Ligustrum
sp.,
Olea europaea
L.,
Phillyrea
sp. (
De Prins & De Prins 2018
). Known as olive leaf moth—this pest is highly mobile having dispersed as far as northern Europe, such as Sweden and Poland. This species has also been recorded on wild olives in Southern Africa and jasmine in Kenya (
Ghoneim 2015
).