Hodebertia testalis (Fabricius, 1794)

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 : 51-52

37. Hodebertia testalis (Fabricius, 1794)

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

= Botys albidalis ( Walker, 1866) ;

= Botys incoloralis ( Guenée, 1854) ;

= Botys melonalis ( Walker, 1859b) ;

= Botys perpendiculalis (Duponсhel, 1833);

= Botys ruficostalis ( Lederer, 1855) ;

= Margaronia putrescens (Meyriсk, 1934);

= Pyrausta phyllidalis Sсhaus, 1940;

= Spilodes nitetisalis ( Walker, 1859b).

Material : 2 ex. Mali, Bamako, Ouronina 12°5'39.78"N 8°24'3.16"W, 04– 25.05.2014, leg. Kravchenko 1 ex. same data except the date 0 3.07.2014 and 1 ex . same data except the date 13.10.2014 ( SMNH) .

Distribution: Palaeotropical. In Africa: Botswana, Comoros, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Réunion, Saint Helena, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Yemen, Zambia ( De Prins & De Prins 2018) and Mali (new record). Also in Australasian: Australia; Neotropical: Cuba; Oriental: India, Malaysia, Myanmar; Palaearctic: N. Africa, S. Europe, Syria ( De Prins & De Prins 2018).

Host-plants: Malvaceae : Hibiscus sp.; Apocynaceae : Gomphocarpus sp.; Asclepias curassavica L.; Stapelia sp., Pergularia daemia (Forssk.) Chiov. ( Nuss et al. 2003 –2018; De Prins & De Prins 2018).