Pyrausta phoenicealis ( Hübner, 1818 )

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 : 45

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4457.1.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6485347
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scientific name	Pyrausta phoenicealis ( Hübner, 1818 )
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14. Pyrausta phoenicealis ( Hübner, 1818) View in CoL

( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 8–22 )

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

Botys coecilialis Walker, 1859b View in CoL ;

Botys phaenicealis Snellen, 1883 ;

Botys phaenicialis Snellen, 1875 ;

Myriostephes heliamma View in CoL Meyriсk, 1885b;

Rhodaria flegialis Walker, 1859b ;

Rhodaria nerialis Boisduval, 1833b ;

Rhodaria noraxalis Walker, 1859 с;

Rhodaria ocellusalis Walker, 1859 с;

Rhodaria panopealis Walker, 1859a View in CoL ;

Rhodaria catenalis Walker, 1866 View in CoL ;

Rhodaria concatenalis Walker, 1866 ;

Rhodaria juncturalis Walker, 1866 View in CoL ;

Rhodaria probalis Walker, 1859 View in CoL с.

Material : 47 ex. Mali, Bamako, Ouronina 12°5'39.78"N 8°24'3.16"W, 23.01.– 24.03.2014, leg. Kravchenko et al., 2 ex. same data except the date 10– 23.09.2014 ( SMNH) GoogleMaps .

Distribution: Cosmopolitan. In Africa: Comoros, DR Congo, Gambia, Madagascar, Mauritius, Namibia, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates ( De Prins & De Prins 2018) and Mali (new record). Also in Australasia: Australia; Nearctic: U.S. A.; Neotropical: Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic; Oriental: India, Taiwan; Palaearctic: China, Europe, Japan, Turkey ( De Prins & De Prins 2018).

Host-plants: Lamiaceae : Coleus sp., Dicerandra frutescens Shinners , Hyptis pectinate (L.) Poit., H. brevipes Poit. , H. capitata Jacq. , Rosmarinus officinalis L. Known as perilla leaf moth—a pest of shiso ( Perilla ), fruit mint ( Dicerandra frutescens ) and knobweed ( Hyptis capitata ) ( Heppner 2003; Choi et al. 2008).