Poliobotys ablactalis ( Walker, 1859a: 660 ) (Botys)

Singh, Navneet, Ranjan, Rahul, Talukdar, Avishek, Joshi, Rahul, Kirti, Jagbir Singh, Chandra, Kailash & Mally, Richard, 2022, A catalogue of Indian Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5197 (1), pp. 1-423 : 339

1027. Poliobotys ablactalis ( Walker, 1859a: 660) (Botys)

Type locality: Ceylon [ Sri Lanka]

= Lamprophaia ablactalis borbonica Guillermet, 2008: 187 , 188, photo 6, fig. 9

Type locality: La Réunion, Le Lazareth de la Grande Chaloupe, 10 m elev .

Distribution. Indian records: Calcutta ( Sevastopulo 1938), Nilgiri (Tamil Nadu), Sikkim, Poona (Maharashtra) ( Gupta 1994), India ( Rose 2001), East Himalaya ( Sanyal et al. 2018), Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh ( Chandra et al. 2019), Bihar, Jharkhand (Singh 2019), Andaman Islands ( Rao & Sivaperuman 2020), Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Assam ( Sondhi et al. 2021). Global records: Ceylon, Burma, Borneo, Celebes, Sumbawa ( Hampson 1896b), Vietnam ( Tonkin) ( de Joannis 1930), Nepal ( Yamanaka 1998),Aldabra Atoll ( Shaffer & Munroe 2003 [2007]), Palaeotropical, Angola, Cameroon, DR Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, Réunion, Seychelles, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe (De Prins & De Prins 2011–2021), Mali, Australia, Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Sulawesi), Sri Lanka ( Poltavsky et al. 2018), Pakistan, Bhutan, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Russia, Africa ( Chandra et al. 2019).