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This widespread species was described from West Africa (
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) and reported from
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, west to
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and south to
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and
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. MJWC encountered this species in
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,
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; he did not see adults, but found a caterpillar (90/200) in the Botanical Gardens on a shoot of
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<emphasis id="B958F44EFF85FFDB9F3BFD46FAC5B8AF" box="[1105,1296,726,751]" italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">Pa. curatellifolia</emphasis>
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(
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). In TCECs experience it is generally a species found in or near forest.
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lists
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<emphasis id="B958F44EFF85FFDB9FF6FD6BFAD8B953" box="[1180,1293,762,787]" italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">Pl. galesa</emphasis>
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as a species that might occur in
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. Now that the food plant is known it should not be too difficult to track it down where the food plant occurs, if it is a Kenyan species.
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states that the food plants in
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are
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and certain other grasses, but as discussed in the introduction to
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, all records from grasses should be discounted.
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is now known to be a food plant of
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, based on our and others observations, but probably first observed by Ivan Bampton in the 1980s. The record from a
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sp.
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by MJWC (pers. comm. T.B. Larsen
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) is actually from
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in
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,
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(90/200), and not from
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. Subsequent authors repeat this food plant (
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Pringle
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. 1994
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,
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Henning
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. 1997
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,
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Heath
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. 2002
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,
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,
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). TCEC has reared
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<emphasis id="B958F44EFF85FFDB9A0AFB17FE05BEDF" box="[352,464,1158,1183]" italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">Pl. galesa</emphasis>
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from
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<emphasis id="B958F44EFF85FFDB997CFB16FD00BEDF" box="[534,725,1158,1183]" italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">Pa. curatellifolia</emphasis>
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in
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(Mt.
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) and
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(Rondo Plateau, southeastern
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; Kihansi Gorge, Udzungwa Mts.) and northern
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(Mt. Jao). The record by TCEC from a tall, woody species of
<emphasis id="B958F44EFF85FFDB9AD7FB5EFDC3BEA6" box="[445,534,1231,1254]" italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">Parnari</emphasis>
in the Udzungwa Mountains in
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(pers. comm. T.B. Larsen
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) is from
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<emphasis id="B958F44EFF85FFDB9AA8FB62FD92BF4B" box="[450,583,1266,1291]" italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">Pa. excelsa</emphasis>
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, and TCEC has also reared
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<emphasis id="B958F44EFF85FFDB98CEFB63FBCEBF4B" box="[932,1051,1266,1291]" italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">Pl. galesa</emphasis>
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from
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<emphasis id="B958F44EFF85FFDB9F01FB62FB24BF4B" box="[1131,1265,1266,1291]" italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">Pa. excelsa</emphasis>
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at Mt. Mabu,
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.
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<emphasis id="B958F44EFF85FFDB9BFDFACEFF0FBF36" box="[151,218,1375,1398]" italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">Ovum</emphasis>
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The ova shown in
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were laid on the youngest leaves and stems of flush growth of suckers or saplings of about
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in the Botanic Gardens,
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. A final instar caterpillar of
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<emphasis id="B958F44EFF85FFDB98DFFA37FBF3BFFF" box="[949,1062,1446,1471]" italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">Pl. galesa</emphasis>
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was found at the same time, but adults of
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<emphasis id="B958F44EFF85FFDB9A6AFA5BFEA9BFA3" box="[256,380,1482,1507]" italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">Pl. moritili</emphasis>
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were also flying and the eggs could have been of either species. The living ova (
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) are copper-orange in colour and would blend quite well with the hairs of the same colour on young flush growth (
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). Once the ova eclose, they are white and quite conspicuous in situ as the newly hatched caterpillar leaves most of the shell uneaten.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B958F44EFF85FFDB9BFDF9EFFEF2BCD7" box="[151,295,1662,1687]" italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">Leaf shelters</emphasis>
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The mature caterpillar from
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had made a shelter by folding a leaf downwards along each side of the mid rib and joining the edges. The caterpillar rested on the midrib (
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). Feeding was on the apical portion of the leaf and shelter, and in captivity most the leaf shelter was eaten.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B958F44EFF85FFDB9BFDF8A3FEC0BD0B" box="[151,277,1842,1867]" italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">Caterpillar</emphasis>
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No detailed description was prepared, but the final instar caterpillar from Harare is shown in
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. The colour and markings of the head of the final instar caterpillar are different from that of any other
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<emphasis id="B958F44EFF85FFDB9FBCF8EBFAB7BDD3" box="[1238,1378,1914,1939]" italics="true" pageId="59" pageNumber="60">Platylesches</emphasis>
spp.
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documented so far. Caterpillars documented by TCEC from the Udzungus and Riondo Plateau,
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, and Mt. Mabu,
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, are almost identical.
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<emphasis id="B958F44EFF82FFDC9BFDFF08FF07BAF0" box="[151,210,153,176]" italics="true" pageId="60" pageNumber="61">Pupa</emphasis>
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The caterpillar from
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pupated between a leaf and the base of rearing container, and rather than disturb it, it was not documented.
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