Bocchoris inspersalis ( Zeller, 1852: 33 ) (Botys)

Singh, Navneet, Ranjan, Rahul, Talukdar, Avishek, Joshi, Rahul, Kirti, Jagbir Singh, Chandra, Kailash & Mally, Richard, 2022, A catalogue of Indian Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5197 (1), pp. 1-423 : 254

593. Bocchoris inspersalis ( Zeller, 1852: 33) (Botys)

Type locality: South Africa, Natal [KwaZulu-Natal], Gariep [Orange] River , Limpopo River , Bosjesmansrand [Pietermaritzburg]

= Desmia afflictalis Guenée, 1854: 190 , pl. 5 fig. 4

Type locality: Abyssinie [ Ethiopia]

= Aediodes bootanalis Walker, 1866a: 1298

Type locality: Bootan [ Bhutan]

= Desmia stellaris Butler, 1879e: 73 , pl 58 fig. 15

Type locality: Japan, Yokohama

Distribution. Indian records: Nilgiris ( Hampson 1896b), Calcutta ( Sevastopulo 1938), Kerala ( Mathew & Menon 1984), Nilgiri (Tamil Nadu), Khasis, Shilong (Meghalaya) , Pusa (Bihar), Bengal ( Gupta 1994), Khasi Hills, Cherrapunjee, Guwahati, Hatigaon ( Kirti & Sodhi 2001), India ( Poltavsky et al. 2018), Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh ( Sondhi et al. 2021). Global records: Throughout Africa, Aden, Japan, China, Bhutan, Ceylon, Burma, Java ( Hampson 1896b), Palaeotropical, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Cameroon, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Réunion, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe (De Prins & De Prins 2011–2021), Mali, South China, Indonesia (Java), South Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka ( Poltavsky et al. 2018).