Herpetogramma licarsisalis (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 : 51

35. Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859)

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

= Botys abstrusalis Walker, 1859b ;

= Botys immundalis Walker, 1866 ;

= Botys pharaxalis Walker, 1859b ;

= Botys serotinalis Joannis in Joannis & Ragonot, 1889 ;

= Entephria fumidalis Walker, 1866 .

Material : 6 ex. Mali, Bamako, Ouronina 12°5'39.78"N 8°24'3.16"W, 04.08.– 23.09.2014, leg. Kravchenko et al. ( SMNH).

Distribution: Palaeotropical, penetrates to Palaearctic. In Africa: British Indian Ocean Territory, Cameroon, Cape Verde, DR Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Réunion, Saint Helena, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Zimbabwe ( De Prins & De Prins 2018) and Mali (new record). Also in Australasia: Hawaii, New Zealand, Solomon Islands; Oriental: Andaman Islands, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia (Borneo), Malaysia ( Sarawak), New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka; Palaearctic: China, Cyprus, Japan, Lebanon, North Africa, South Europe, Syria ( De Prins & De Prins 2018).

Host-plants: Poaceae : Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers., Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn., Hyparrhenia sp., Lolium perenne L., Paspalum dilatatum Poir. , Pennisetum clandestinum Hochst. ex Chiov. , Oryza sativa L., Stenotaphrum dimidiatum (L.) Brongn., Zea mays L.. ( De Prins & De Prins 2018;). Known as tropical grass webworm—its larvae feed on various grasses of the Poaceae family and it is a pest of turf and pastures ( Wikipedia 2018).