Taxon classification Animalia Lepidoptera Crambidae

Leucinodes raondry (Viette, 1981) comb. n. (Daraba)

Type locality.

Madagascar, Sambirano, Tsaratanana, Haut Sambirano, Besanetrikely Valley.

Remarks.

This species was described in Daraba Walker, 1859, a genus that has previously been synonymised with Sceliodes Guenée, 1854 by Hampson (1899). The type specimen of Leucinodes raondry (Viette, 1981), comb. n. from Madagascar could not be traced at MNHN. According to the original description and the illustration of the species given therein (Viette 1981), this species agrees with the diagnostic wing pattern elements of Leucinodes, and we therefore consider it as correctly placed in this genus. It differs from Leucinodes laisalis in the larger size, the more ochreous grey tone and the reduced half moon-shaped subapical patch of the forewings (Viette 1981). None of the species described here as new have the prominent dark subapical patch in the hindwings of Leucinodes raondry, so that conspecifity with any of them can be ruled out.