Sameodes cancellalis ( Zeller, 1852 )

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 : 57-58

58. Sameodes cancellalis ( Zeller, 1852)

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

= Hymenia meridionalis Walker, 1866 ;

= Lepyrodes lepidalis Walker, 1859a ;

= Samea sidealis Walker, 1859 с;

= Samea vespertinalis Saalmüller, 1880 ;

= Sameodes trithyralis Snellen, 1880 ;

= Stenia pipleisalis Walker, 1859a.

Material : 479 ex. Mali, Bamako, Ouronina 12°5'39.78"N 8°24'3.16"W, 20.01.– 11.11.2014, leg. Kravchenko et al. ( SMNH).

Distribution: Palaeotropical, penetrates to Palaearctic. In Africa: British Indian Ocean Territory, Cameroon, Comoros, DR Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Réunion, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe ( De Prins & De Prins 2018) and Mali (new record). Also in Australasia: Australia; Oriental: India, Indonesia (Java, Sulawesi), Sri Lanka ( De Prins & De Prins 2018).

Host-plants: Fabaceae : Stylosanthes erecta P.Beauv. ; Lamiaceae : Tectona grandis L.f.; Poaceae : Oryza sativa L. ( Goff 2018).