Pyralis pictalis, Curtis, 1834

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 : 134

454. Pyralis pictalis (J. Curtis, 1834: folio 503) ( Asopia )

Type locality: Great Britain, London

= Pyralis pronoealis Walker, 1859a: 906–907

Type locality: Malaysia , Borneo, Sarawak

= Pyralis proximalis Walker, 1862a: 120

Type locality: Hindostan [ India]

= Myelois bractiatella Walker, 1863a: 36–37

Type locality: Ceylon [ Sri Lanka]

= Pyralis elachia Butler, 1879e: 70 , pl. 58 fig. 3

Type locality: Japan, Yokohama

Distribution. Indian records: India ( Swinhoe & Cotes 1889a), North West Himalayas, Nagas ( Hampson 1896b), Kolkata ( Sevastopulo 1935), North India ( Rose & Dhillon 1980c), West Bengal (Kurseong, Darjiling) ( Bhattacharya 1997), Maharashtra ( Sondhi et al. 2021), Bhubhaneshwar ( Pattanaik et al. 2021). Global records: Europe, West Africa, Japan, Ceylon, Burma, Sumatra, Borneo, Gilbert Island ( Hampson 1896a), Borneo ( Sutton et al. 2015), Cosmopolitan. In Africa: DR Congo, Madagascar, Réunion, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Mali, in Oriental: Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Palaearctic: Netherlands, United Kingdom ( Poltavsky et al. 2018).