Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)

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 : 58

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4457.1.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2A372679-102F-4E3E-8830-8DD3A799ED80
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6485361
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scientific name	Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775)
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59. Spoladea recurvalis (Fabricius, 1775) View in CoL

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

= Hymenia exodias Meyriсk, 1904;

= Nacoleia ancylosema Dognin, 1909 ;

= Phalaena angustalis Fabriсius, 1787;

= Spoladea animalis Guenée, 1854 View in CoL .

Material : 1 ex. Mali, Bamako, Ouronina 12°5'39.78"N 8°24'3.16"W, 24.02.2014, leg. Kravchenko et al., 359 ex. same data except the date 02.04.– 12.11.2014 ( SMNH) GoogleMaps .

Distribution: Pantropical, penetrates to Palaearctic. In Africa: British Indian Ocean Territory, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Comoros, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Rwanda, Réunion, Saint Helena, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe ( De Prins & De Prins 2018) and Mali (new record). Also in: Australasian: Australia, Hawaii (Molokai), New Zealand, Rapa Island; Neotropical: Brazil, French Guiana; Oriental: Andamans, India, Indonesia (Java), Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan; Palaearctic: Canary Islands, Europe, China, Japan ( De Prins & De Prins 2018).

Host-plants: Polyphagous. Often on weeds Amaranthaceae : Altermanthera sp., Amaranthus sp., Chenopodium sp. Achyranthes aspera L., Bassia indica (Wight) A.J.Scott ; Beta vulgaris L., Telanthera versicolor Regel ; Aizoaceae : Trianthema portulacastrum L.; Brassicaceae : Brassica sp.; Fabaceae : Glycine max (L.) Merr., Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. Known as beet webworm—damages spinach, beet, cotton, maize and soybean beet in tropical and sub-tropical countries ( James et al. 2010; Ogbalu 2015; De Prins & De Prins 2018).