Marasmia trapezalis (Guenée, 1854) COMMON NAME(S): Grass moth or Crambid Snout Moth. SYNONYM(S): Botys creonalis Walker, 1859c; Botys neoclesalis Walker, 1859c; Botys suspicalis Walker, 1859c; Botys convectalis Walker, 1866a; Cnaphalocrocis bifurcalis Snellen, 1880c; Dolichosticha perinephes Meyrick, 1886b; Bradina andresi Rebel, 1912a. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Oman, Réunion, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants of the taxon include Poaceae species; Zea mays L., Sorghum sp. and Panicum trichocladum K.Schum. in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Uganda. The taxon is also known to consume the following Poaceae species elsewhere in Africa; Oryza sp., Imperata cylindrica (L.) Raeusch, Brachiaria sp., Oryza sativa L., Panicum maximum Jacq., Pennisetum clandestinum Hochst. ex Chiov., Paspalum notatum Fl ̧ggé, Saccharum officinarum L., Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench; Triticum aestivum L. SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022.

Published as part of Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), pp. 1-503 in Zootaxa 5354 (1) on pages 107-108, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434