156. Syntozyga ephippias (Meyrick, 1907)

Chrosis ephippias Meyrick, 1907, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 17: 731. Type locality: Sri Lanka and India, “ Ceylon [Sri Lanka] (Puttalan/Maskeliya) and India (Bombay)”. Syntypes (unknown): NHM .

Syntozyga ephippias (Meyrick, 1907): Horak, 2006, Monogr. Austral. Lepid. 10: 216.

Distribution outside Thailand: Sri Lanka (Meyrick 1907) and India (Pathania et al. 2020).

Distribution in Thailand: N–– Chiang Mai Prov. (Doi Inthanon N.P. and Doi Suthep-Pui N.P.) and W–– Kanchanaburi Prov. (Thong Pha Phum N.P.) (Kawabe 1989; KKIC).

Host plants: Unknown in Thailand. Caterpillars bore in stem of Commelinaceae: Commeliana benghalensis (Fletcher 1932) .

Remarks: Specimens from Thailand were collected in dry evergreen forest and hill evergreen forest at 758– 1,300 m.