Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859)

Poltavsky, Alexander N., Kravchenko, Vasiliy D., Traore, Mohammed M., Traore, Sekou F., Gergely, Petrányi, Witt, Thomas J., Sulak, Harry, Beck, T., Junnila, Amy, Revay, Edita E., Doumbia, Seydou, Beier, John C. & Muller, Gunter C., 2018, The Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) fauna of the woody savannah belt in Mali, West Africa, Zootaxa 4457 (1), pp. 39-69 : 51

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4457.1.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2A372679-102F-4E3E-8830-8DD3A799ED80

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6485297

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039B7E1A-FFC5-FFAE-FF3F-BAC4748718D5

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Plazi

scientific name

Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859)
status

 

35. Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859) View in CoL

Synonymy follows Nuss et al. (2003 –2018):

= Botys abstrusalis Walker, 1859b ;

= Botys immundalis Walker, 1866 View in CoL ;

= Botys pharaxalis Walker, 1859b View in CoL ;

= Botys serotinalis Joannis in Joannis & Ragonot, 1889 View in CoL ;

= Entephria fumidalis Walker, 1866 View in CoL .

Material : 6 ex. Mali, Bamako, Ouronina 12°5'39.78"N 8°24'3.16"W, 04.08.– 23.09.2014, leg. Kravchenko et al. ( SMNH). GoogleMaps

Distribution: Palaeotropical, penetrates to Palaearctic. In Africa: British Indian Ocean Territory, Cameroon, Cape Verde, DR Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Réunion, Saint Helena, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Zimbabwe ( De Prins & De Prins 2018) and Mali (new record). Also in Australasia: Hawaii, New Zealand, Solomon Islands; Oriental: Andaman Islands, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia (Borneo), Malaysia ( Sarawak), New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka; Palaearctic: China, Cyprus, Japan, Lebanon, North Africa, South Europe, Syria ( De Prins & De Prins 2018).

Host-plants: Poaceae : Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers., Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn., Hyparrhenia sp., Lolium perenne L., Paspalum dilatatum Poir. , Pennisetum clandestinum Hochst. ex Chiov. , Oryza sativa L., Stenotaphrum dimidiatum (L.) Brongn., Zea mays L .. ( De Prins & De Prins 2018;). Known as tropical grass webworm—its larvae feed on various grasses of the Poaceae family and it is a pest of turf and pastures ( Wikipedia 2018).

SMNH

Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Crambidae

Genus

Herpetogramma

Loc

Herpetogramma licarsisalis (Walker, 1859)

Poltavsky, Alexander N., Kravchenko, Vasiliy D., Traore, Mohammed M., Traore, Sekou F., Gergely, Petrányi, Witt, Thomas J., Sulak, Harry, Beck, T., Junnila, Amy, Revay, Edita E., Doumbia, Seydou, Beier, John C. & Muller, Gunter C. 2018
2018
Loc

Botys serotinalis

Joannis in Joannis & Ragonot 1889
1889
Loc

Botys immundalis

Walker 1866
1866
Loc

Entephria fumidalis

Walker 1866
1866
Loc

Botys abstrusalis

Walker 1859
1859
Loc

Botys pharaxalis

Walker 1859
1859
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