Taxon classification Animalia Lepidoptera Crambidae

Leucinodes cordalis (Doubleday, 1843) comb. n. (Margaritia)

Leucinodes cordalis (Doubleday, 1843). Type locality: New Zealand.

Daraba extensalis Walker, 1866 (synonymised by Hampson 1899). Type locality: New Zealand, Auckland.

Eretria obsistalis Snellen, 1880 (synonymised by Hampson 1899). Type locality: Indonesia, Sulawesi [Celebes], Boelekomba; Bonthain.

Sceliodes mucidalis Guenée, 1854 (synonymised by Hampson 1899). Type locality: Australia.

Material examined.

Syntype cordalis ♂ [circular white label with light blue border] "SYN- | TYPE", [circular white label] [front] "New | Zealand", [back] "42 | 55", [rectangular white label] " Margarita [sic!] | cordalis Doubld. | SYNTYPE | det. D.J. Carter, 1966", transparent capsule containing the head (BMNH).

Remarks.

Leucinodes cordalis is known to occur in New Zealand, Australia, and Indonesia: Sulawesi (Snellen 1880, Dugdale 1988, Shaffer et al. 1996).