Botyodes asialis Guenee 1854
Authors/Creators
- 1. National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, State Health Society, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, IN- 744101, India. Z sumitkumarb 3850 @ gmail. com https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1110 - 2083
- 2. Zoological Survey of India-Andaman Nicobar Regional Centre, Port Blair - 744104, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Z c _ sivaperuman 1 @ rediffmail. com https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3582 - 7767
Description
Botyodes asialis Guenée, 1854 (Figs 2C, 4C, 5C)
Botyodes asialis Guenée, 1854:321. TL: Central India; East India / Bangladesh; Nepal.
Botys chrysotalis Mabille, 1880:cviii–cix. TL: Madagascar.
Material examined. 1♂, INDIA, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, Watch Tower, 08-XI-2018, coll. K.C. Gopi and Party (Reg. No. ZSI / ANRC /T-16597); 1♀, INDIA, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, Watch Tower, 08-XI-2018, coll. K.C. Gopi and party (Reg. No. ZSI / ANRC /T-16598); 1♂, INDIA, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Galathea 42.7 km, Great Nicobar, 18-XII-2019, coll. B. Sumit Kumar Rao (Reg. No. ZSI / ANRC /T-10799).
Diagnosis. Wingspan 45–50 mm. Externally similar to other congeners in foreground colour of forewing and hindwing, but can be differentiated by prominent antemedial and postmedial irregular zig-zag markings, broad brown marginal bands of hindwings. In male genitalia, uncus curved and elongated with spines on the spatulated apex, valva oval–shaped, sclerotized costa, phallus with a robust spineshaped cornutus.
Distribution. Africa, Borneo, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia (Kirti & Rose, 1990; Ko et al., 2019; Shaffer et al., 1996).
Remarks. Documented for the first time from Great Nicobar Island. Representative individuals of this species were observed in traps placed in the primary forests of the Great Nicobar Islands.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZSI, ANRC
- Event date
- 2018-11-08 , 2019-12-18
- Verbatim event date
- 2018-11-08 , 2019-12-18
- Scientific name authorship
- Guenee
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Crambidae
- Genus
- Botyodes
- Species
- asialis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Botyodes asialis Guenee, 1854 sec. Rao & Sivaperuman, 2025
References
- Guenee, M. A. (1854) Deltoides and Pyralites. In: Boisduval, JBAD de & Guenee, M. A. (eds) Natural History of Insects. General Species of Lepidoptera. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-448.
- Mabille, P. (1880) Note on a collection of Lepidoptera. Annals of the Entomological Society of Belgium, Brussels, 23, civ-cix.
- Kirti, J. S. & Rose, H. S. (1990) Taxonomic status of three Indian species of the genus Botyodes Guenee (Pyraustinae, Pyralidae, Lepidoptera). Journal of Insect Science, 3 (2), 1118-1121.
- Ko, J. H., Lee, T. G., Na, S. M., Park, B. S. & Bae, Y. S. (2019) Review of the genus Botyodes Guenee (Lepidoptera, Crambidae, Spilomelinae) from Laos with three newly recorded species. Journal of Asia - Pacific Biodiversity, 12 (2), 278-283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japb.2018.10.001
- Shaffer, M., Nielsen, E. S. & Horak, M. (1996) Pyralidae. In: Nielsen, E. S., Edwards E. D. and Rangsi, T. V. (eds) Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. CSIRO Division of Entomology, Canberra, pp. 164-199.