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Sciorista assignatalis Pyrausta

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1097. Sciorista assignatalis (de Joannis, 1930: 704) (Pyrausta)

Type locality: Indonesia, Java

= Botys signatalis Walker, 1866a: 1444

Type locality: Indonesia, Java

= Pyrausta euryphaea Meyrick, 1932: 318 (unnecessary replacement name)

Distribution. Indian records: N. W. Himalayas, Nilgiris (Hampson 1896b), North India (Rose & Dhillon 1980c), Kerala (Mathew & Menon 1984), West and Central Himalaya (Sanyal et al. 2018), Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand (Pathania et al. 2021b). Global records: Ceylon, Java (Hampson 1896b), Nepal (Yamanaka 1995), Philippines (Kemal et al. 2019).

Remarks: Botys signatalis Walker, 1866a: 1444 is a secondary junior homonym of Rhodaria signatalis Walker, 1866a: 1282. The replacement name is Pyrausta assignatalis de Joannis, 1930. Meyrick (1930 –36) subsequently established an unnecessary replacement name P. euryphaea Meyrick, 1932. Furthermore, the illustration of Botys medullalis Snellen, 1899 (type locality: Indonesia, W Java) in Snellen (1899: pl. 8) shows that B. medullalis is clearly different from the North American R. signatalis Walker and it seems to have been synonymized with the wrong signatalis. Comparing Snellen’s (1899) plate 8, fig. 10 with Sciorista euryphaea (= B. signatalis Walker, 1866a: 1444) in Kemal et al. (2019: fig. 67), there are clear differences in the maculation between the specimens, ruling out conspecificity. Therefore, Botys medullalis Snellen, 1899 is reinstated to species status as Sciorista medullalis (Snellen, 1899), stat. rev., comb. nov.

Notes

Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ranjan, Rahul, Talukdar, Avishek, Joshi, Rahul, Kirti, Jagbir Singh, Chandra, Kailash & Mally, Richard, 2022, A catalogue of Indian Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera), pp. 1-423 in Zootaxa 5197 (1) on page 353, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5197.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7252292

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Scientific name authorship
de Joannis
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Crambidae
Genus
Sciorista
Species
assignatalis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sciorista assignatalis (Joannis, 1930) sec. Singh, Ranjan, Talukdar, Joshi, Kirti, Chandra & Mally, 2022

References

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  • Hampson, G. F. (1896 b) The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Moths. Vol. 4. Taylor & Francis, London, 595 pp.
  • Rose, H. S. & Dhillon, S. S. (1980 c) Historical account of India Pyralidae (Lepidoptera) and future scope of work on this family. The Indian Zoologist, 4 (1 - 2), 137 - 151.
  • Mathew, G. & Menon, M. G. R. (1984) The Pyralid fauna of Kerala. Journal of Entomological Research, 8 (1), 5 - 13.
  • Sanyal, A. K., Mallick, K., Khan, S., Bandyopadhyay, U., Mazumder, A., Bhattacharyya, K., Pathania, P. C., Raha, A. & Chandra, K. (2018) Insecta: Lepidoptera (Moths). In: Chandra, K., Gupta, D., Gopi, K. C., Tripathy, B. & Kumar, V. (Eds.), Faunal Diversity of Indian Himalaya. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 651 - 726.
  • Pathania, P. C., Singh, N., Das, A. & Mazumder, A. (2021 b) Insecta: Lepidoptera: Heterocera (Moths). In: Director (Ed.), Fauna of Himachal Pradesh. State Fauna Series 26. Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 133 - 270.
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  • Kemal, A., Kizildad, S. & Kocak, A. O. (2019) Further notes on the Heterocera (Lepidoptera) of the Philippines, with a description of a new species. Priamus, 18 (2), 31 - 99.
  • Meyrick, E. (1930 - 1936) Exotic Microlepidoptera. Taylor and Francis, London, 642 pp.
  • Snellen, P. C. T. (1899) Eenige aanteekeningen over Pyraliden. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 41 (1898), 173 - 193, pls. 8 - 9.