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Botyodes asialis Guenee 1854

Description

596. Botyodes asialis Guenée, 1854: 321

Type locality: Central India. Bengale [East India / Bangladesh]. Nepal

= Botys chrysotalis Mabille, 1880b: cviii–cix

Type locality: Madagascar

= Botyodes asialis f. liliputalis Strand, 1913: 76

Type locality: Cameroon, Alen

Distribution. Indian records: Kasaoli, Nilgiri Hills, Bombay, Poona, Khandala, Belgaum, Sikkim, Kulu, Simla, Buxa, Ranchi (Swinhoe & Cotes 1889b), throughout India (Hampson 1896b, Gupta 1994), Calcutta (Sevastopulo 1935), Kerala (Mathew & Menon 1894), North India (Rose & Dhillon 1980c), India (Robinson et al. 1994, Poltavsky et al. 2018), Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal (Singh 2019) Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh (Sondhi et al. 2021), Delhi (Komal et al. 2021), Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura (Reddy & Murthy 2021). Global records: Baluchistan, Ceylon, Burma, Borneo (Hampson 1896b), Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Singapore, Sarawak, Philippines, New Guinea, also widespread in Africa, lowland to montane (2200 m) (Robinson et al. 1994), Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, China, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sarawak, Philippines, New Guinea, Australia, Africa (Irungbam et al. 2016), Other parts of Oriental Region, Africa, Papua, Fiji, Hawaii, also East and South Africa, Amboina, Annam, Borneo, Celebes, Fiji, Lord Howe Island, Myanmar, New Guinea, Pakistan (Baluchistan), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Taiwan, Temate (Bhattacharya 2000), Cameroon, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, La Réunion, Madagascar, Rwanda, Réunion, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mali, Australia, Fiji, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka (Poltavsky et al. 2018), Vietnam (Singh 2019).

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 255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5197.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7252292

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