Diaphania indica ( Saunders, 1851 )

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 : 48

25. Diaphania indica ( Saunders, 1851)

( Fig. 11 )

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

= Botys hyalinalis Boisduval, 1833a ;

= Eudioptis capensis Zeller, 1852 ;

= Glyphodes intermedialis Dognin, 1904 ;

= Glyphodes indicalis Moore, 1867 ;

= Phakellura cucurbitalis Guenée, 1862 ;

= Phakellura gazorialis Guenée, 1854 ;

= Phakellura garoriali s Snellen, 1882;

= Phakellura zygaenalis Guenée, 1854 .

Material : 8 ex. Mali, Bamako, Ouronina 12°5'39.78"N 8°24'3.16"W, 23.01.– 07.06.2014, leg. Kravchenko et al., 28 ex. same data except the date 03.07.– 28.10.2014 ( SMNH) .

Distribution: Pantropical, penetrates to Palaearctic. In Africa: British Indian Ocean Territory, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Comoros, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Oman, Rwanda, Réunion, Saint Helena, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Zimbabwe ( De Prins & De Prins 2018) and Mali (new record). Also in Australasian: Australia, Fiji, Marquesas, Tahiti; Nearctic: U.S. A. (Florida); Oriental: India, Indonesia (Borneo, Java), New Guinea, Sri Lanka; Palaearctic: Canary Islands, China, Japan, Korea ( De Prins & De Prins 2018).

Host-plants: Amaranthaceae : Achyranthes aspera L.; Cucurbitaceae : Ceratosanthes palmata (L.) Urb., Cucurbita sp., Cucurbita pepo L., Cucumis sativus L., Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb., L. cylindrica (L.) M.Roem., Trichosanthes cucumerina L.; Fabaceae : Erythrina corallodendron L.; Malvaceae : Gossypium herbaceum L. ( De Prins & De Prins 2018; Goff 2018). Known as a cucumber moth—occasional pest of cucurbits.

Figures

FIGURES 8–22. Some images of Pyraloidea speсies from Mali. 8. Parapoynx fluctuosalis. 9. Cryptosana caritalis. 10. Pyrausta phoenicealis. 11. Diaphania indica. 12. Glyphodes bicolor. 13. Glyphodes onychinalis. 14. Glyphodes stolalis. 15. Haritalodes derogata. 16. Syllepte rogationis. 17. Nevrina sp. 18. Nevrina procopia (Stoll in Cramer & Stoll, 1781) from Liberia. 19. Orphanostigma abruptalis. 20. Synclera traducalis. 21. Ghesquierellana hirtusalis. 22. Ulopeza conigeralis.