Palpita nigropunctalis, Bremer, 1864

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 : 325

945. Palpita nigropunctalis ( Bremer, 1864: 67, pl. 6 fig. 5) ( Margarodes )

Type locality: Russia, Ussuri river , above outlet of Ema river

= Margaronia neomera Butler, 1878b: 57 , pl. 39 fig. 5

Type locality: Japan, Yokohama

Distribution. Indian records: Sikkim ( Snellen 1890), Simla, Maharashtra, Bombay, Tamil Nadu, Nilgiris, Sikkim, Assam, Sibsagar, Nagaland ( Mandal & Bhattacharya 1980), throughout India ( Gupta 1994), Meghalaya (Khasi Hills, Cheerapunjee) ( Kirti & Sodhi 2001), Andaman Islands ( Rao & Sivaperuman 2020), Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu ( Reddy & Murthy 2021). Global records: Bhutan ( Snellen 1890), Siberia, Japan, Ceylon ( Hampson 1896b), Amur territory, Japan ( Rebel 1901), Vietnam ( Tonkin) ( de Joannis 1930), Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Siberia, Japan ( Mandal & Bhattacharya 1980), Korea ( Park 1983), Japan: Bonin (Ogasawara) islands: Chichijima, Hahajima, Korea, China, Sakhalin, S Kuriles, SE Siberia ( Inoue 1996b, 1998), Russia: SE Siberia, Kuriles: Shikotan, Kunashir, Sakhalin, Korea, E and S China, Japan ( Inoue 1997), China (Hebei, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Zhejiang, Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi), Korea, Japan, Russia (Siberia, Kuriles, Sakhalin) ( Zhang & Li 2005b).