Achyra coelatalis ( Walker, 1859 )

Alipanah, Helen, Asselbergs, Jan, Malm, Tobias & Slamka, František, 2023, Taxonomic study of the subfamily Pyraustinae (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) in Iran, Zootaxa 5289 (1), pp. 1-82 : 63

Achyra coelatalis ( Walker, 1859)

( Fig. 29A )

Dosara coelatalis Walker, 1859: 829 .

TL: Sri Lanka [ Ceylon]

Syn.: Sceliodes nodiferalis Gaede, 1917: 400 .

Anerastia aurantiaca Rothschild, 1921: 225 .

Loxostege fredi Amsel, 1961: 427 , text-fig. 109, pl. 6 fig. 239.

Material examined. Hormozgân Prov.: 1 ♂, Minâb , 23.iv.1971, Safavi, Zairi leg.

Distribution. Niger, Tanzania, Botswana, Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, Mali, Namibia, Rwanda, Réunion, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Yemen, Oman, Afghanistan, Iran ( Amsel 1961, 1970; Nuss et al. 2003 –2022; De Prins & De Prins 2011 –2021).

Remarks. Achyra coelatalis was reported from Iran as Loxostege fredi Amsel, 1961 . The latter species was described by Amsel (1961) based on one male and one female collected by him from Afghanistan (Golbahar) in 1956 and several specimens (paratypes) previously collected by Fred Brandt from Iran (Sarzeh [Hormozgan Province] and Shiraz [Fars Province]) in 1937.

Genus Ecpyrrhorrhoe Hübner, 1825

Figures

FIGURE 29. A) Achyra coelatalis (Walker), male. B, C) Ecpyrrhorrhoe diffusalis (Guenée), male and female, respectively, Kerman, Baft. D) E. rubiginalis (Ḩbner), male. E, F) Palepicorsia ustrinalis (Christoph): female, Khuzestan,Ahwaz (E), male, Sistan and Baluchestan, Taftan Mt. (scale bar = 10.0 mm).