Platylesches Holland, 1896 This is a genus of at least 20 species, which is restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, and is in need of revision (Larsen 2005). Early last century, Dollman (unpublished) reared Pl. moritili from Parinari curatellifolia (Chrysobalanaceae, Malpighiales) in Zambia, but this record was never published. The Chrysobalanaceae food plants were only rediscovered in the last 30 years. All known food plants are in the Chrysobalanaceae, and the great majority of records are from Parinari spp. Parinari curatellifolia is a large spreading tree up to 13m, characteristic of sandy soils and open deciduous woodland and is seldom cut down as its fruit (mbolola plum) is valued by local people (Palgrave 1983). It is found through tropical Africa (National Research Council 2008) to south-west Kenya (Beentje 1994) and south to northern South Africa (Palgrave 1983). Maranthes floribunda is a tree of Zambezian woodland (White et al . 2001) that can easily be confused with Pa. curatellifolia . Parinari excelsa , is a tree associated with forests through West Africa, east to Tanzania (not Kenya) and south to Mozambique, as well as South Africa (White 1978), and is used as a food plant by Pl. galesa . A third species occurring mainly in southern Africa is the low growing (suffrutex) Pa. capensis , found in sandy areas (Palgrave 1983), which in suitable habitat can be found as far north as the Mpanda and Tabora Regions of western Tanzania (K. Vollesen, pers. comm., 2013). Recently M. goetzeniana was found abundantly in Mabu forest in Northern Mozambique —it was previously thought to be an Usambara endemic. Other species of Maranthes occur in West Africa—one having been recorded as a food plant of Platylesches in Côte d’Ivoire (Vuattoux 1999). Other species of Parinari and Maranthes are likely to be food plants. In addition to the eight species of Platylesches we have documented below, two other species are known to feed on Chrysobalanaceae, and Pl. dolomitica Henning & Henning, 1997, which is considered ...