Syllepte picalis Hampson, 1899a: 719

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 : 358

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scientific name	Syllepte picalis Hampson, 1899a: 719
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1123. Syllepte picalis Hampson, 1899a: 719 View in CoL , pl. 49 fig. 14

Type locality: India, Meghalaya, Khásis

= Syllepte picalis Hampson, 1903b: 216 View in CoL , pl. 100 fig. 9 (homonym, duplicate description)

Type Locality: India, Khasis

Distribution. Indian records: Khasi (Meghalaya) ( Hampson 1899a, 1903, Gupta 1994). Global records: unknown.

Remark: The description of Sylepta [sic] picalis Hampson, 1903b is identical with that of Sylepta [sic] picalis Hampson, 1899a . We therefore conclude both names are homonyms.

References

Gupta, S. L. (1994) Checklist of Indian Pyraustinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraliae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of India, 14, 1 - 81.

Hampson, G. F. (1899 a) A revision of the moths of subfamily Pyraustinae and family Pyralidae. Part 1. Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, 1898, 590 - 761.

Hampson, G. F. (1903 b) Moths of India, Supplementary paper to the volumes on the Fauna of British India. Series II. Parts VIII, IX and X. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 15 (9), 19 - 37 + 206 - 226 + 650 - 653.