Marasmia, Lederer, 1863

Poltavsky, Alexander N., Kravchenko, Vasiliy D., Traore, Mohammed M., Traore, Sekou F., Gergely, Petrányi, Witt, Thomas J., Sulak, Harry, Beck, T., Junnila, Amy, Revay, Edita E., Doumbia, Seydou, Beier, John C. & Muller, Gunter C., 2018, The Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) fauna of the woody savannah belt in Mali, West Africa, Zootaxa 4457 (1), pp. 39-69 : 53

40. Marasmia (= Cnaphalocrocis ) poeyalis ( Boisduval, 1833b)

Synonymy follows Nuss et al. (2003 –2018):

= Asopia venilialis ( Walker, 1859a) ;

= Botys marisalis ( Walker, 1859b) ;

= Botys ruralis ( Walker, 1859b) ;

= Botys minutalis ( Mabille, 1880) ;

= Lasiacme mimica ( Warren, 1896);

= Marasmia cicatricosa ( Lederer, 1863) ;

= Marasmia hampsoni (Rothsсhild, 1921);

= Marasmia rectistrigosa ( Snellen, 1872) .

Material : 2 ex. Mali, Bamako, Ouronina 12°5'39.78"N 8°24'3.16"W, 0 6.08.2014, leg. Kravchenko et al. ( SMNH).

Distribution: Palaeotropical. In Africa: British Indian Ocean Territory, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Comoros, DR Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Réunion, Saint Helena, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, United Arab Emirates, Yemen ( De Prins & De Prins 2018) and Mali (new record). Also in Australasian: Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Solomon Islands; Oriental: India, Indonesia (Java), Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Sri Lanka; Palaearctic: Japan ( De Prins & De Prins 2018).

Host-plants: Poaceae : Oryza sativa L., Zea mays L. ( Goff 2018).