Agathodes musivalis Guenée, 1854

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 : 45-46

15. Agathodes musivalis Guenée, 1854

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

= Agathodes chrysalis Hampson, 1908 ;

= Myriostephes heliamma Meyriсk, 1885.

Material : 3 ex. Mali, Bamako, Ouronina 12°5'39.78"N 8°24'3.16"W, 08– 24.02.2014, leg. Kravchenko et al., 1 ex. same data except the date 0 3.09.2014 ( SMNH).

Distribution: Afrotropical. Angola, Cameroon, Comoros, DR Congo, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius,

Mozambique, Réunion, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe ( De Prins & De Prins 2018) and Mali (new record).

Host-plants: Fabaceae : Erythrina abyssinica DC., E. caffra Thunb. , E. variegata L. ( Goff 2018).