Ghesquierellana hirtusalis (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 : 49

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4457.1.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6485287
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scientific name	Ghesquierellana hirtusalis (Walker, 1859)
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28. Ghesquierellana hirtusalis (Walker, 1859) View in CoL

( Fig. 21 View FIGURES 8–22 )

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

= Ghesquierellana hirsutalis Pinhey, 1975 ;

= Phostria pallas Meyriсk, 1936;

= Polygrammodes hirtusalis borbonica Viette, 1976 .

Material : 9 ex. Mali, Bamako, Ouronina 12°5'39.78"N 8°24'3.16"W, 25.01.– 29.05.2014, leg. Kravchenko et al., 4 ex. same data except the date 15.08.– 07.11.2014 ( SMNH) GoogleMaps .

Distribution: Afrotropical. Comoros, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Réunion, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe ( De Prins & De Prins 2018) and Mali (new record).

Host-plants: Moraceae : Ficus carica L., F. mauritiana Lam. , F. mucuso Welw. ex Ficalho, F. sur Forssk., F. trichopoda Backer, F. vallis-choudae Delile; Malvaceae : Gossypium sp. ( Goff 2018).