Palpita metallata (Fabricius, 1781)

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 : 55

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4457.1.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6485355
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scientific name	Palpita metallata (Fabricius, 1781)
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Synonymy follows Nuss et al. ( 2003 –2018):

= Glyphodes ocellata Hampson, 1899 ;

= Glyphodes picticaudalis Hampson, 1908 .

Material : 1 ex. Mali, Bamako, Ouronina 12°5'39.78"N 8°24'3.16"W, 03.07.– 03.09.2014, leg. Kravchenko et al. ( SMNH). GoogleMaps

Distribution: Afrotropical: Angola, Cameroon, Comoros, DR Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda ( De Prins & De Prins 2018) and Mali (new record).

Host-plants: Apocynaceae : Funtumia elastica (Preuss) Stapf , Funtumia sp. (Lamborn 1914; Goff 2018).