Poliobotys ablactalis (Walker, 1859)

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 : 57

55. Poliobotys ablactalis (Walker, 1859)

Material : 2 ex. Mali, Bamako, Ouronina 12°5'39.78"N 8°24'3.16"W, 29– 30.10.2014, leg. Kravchenko et al. ( SMNH).

Distribution: Palaeotropical. In Africa: Angola, Cameroon, DR Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, Réunion, Seychelles, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe ( De Prins & De Prins, 2018) and Mali (new record). Also in Australasia: Australia; Oriental: Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Sulawesi), Sri Lanka ( De Prins & De Prins 2018).

Host-plants: Unknown.