Maliarpha separatella

71. Maliarpha separatella (Ragonot, 1888) Synonymy follows Nuss et al. (2003 –2018): = Anerastia pallidicosta Hampson, 1896; = Enosima vectiferella Ragonot & Hampson, 1901. Material: 131 ex. Mali, Bamako, Ouronina 12°5'39.78"N 8°24'3.16"W, 13.09.– 17.11.2014, leg. Kravchenko et al. (SMNH). Distribution: Palaeotropical. In Africa: Cameroon, Comoros, DR Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda (De Prins & De Prins 2018) and Mali (new record). Also in Oriental: China, India, Myanmar (De Prins & De Prins 2018). Host-plants: Larvae feed on various grasses, including Poaceae: Andropogon tectorum Schumach. & Thonn., Oryza sp., Saccharum sp., Sorghum sp. Zea mays L. Known as African white stemborer—this species is a pest of many crops, especially—sugar cane (Wikipedia 2018).
Published as part of Poltavsky, Alexander N., Kravchenko, Vasiliy D., Traore, Mohammed M., Traore, Sekou F., Gergely, Petrányi, Witt, Thomas J., Sulak, Harry, Beck, T., Junnila, Amy, Revay, Edita E., Doumbia, Seydou, Beier, John C. & Muller, Gunter C., 2018, The Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) fauna of the woody savannah belt in Mali, West Africa, pp. 39-69 in Zootaxa 4457 (1) on page 61, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4457.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1457559
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