Pygospila tyres, Cramer, 1780

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 : 347

1069. Pygospila tyres ( Cramer, 1780: 124, pl. 263 fig. C) ( Phalaena Pyralis )

Type locality: India, Coromandel

= Pygospila tyresalis (misspell.) ( Guenée 1854: 312)

= Pygospila tyridia Strand, 1920a: 155

Type locality: Cameroons

Distribution. Indian records: Madras ( Walker 1859a), Poona, Bombay ( Swinhoe 1885), Himalaya mountains, North Hindostan, Hindostan, Punjab, Darjeeling, Sikkim ( Snellen 1890), Calcutta ( Sevastopulo 1935), North India ( Rose & Dhillon 1980c), Kerala ( Mathew & Menon 1984), throughout India ( Gupta 1994), West Bengal (Calcutta, Murshidabad dist.), Bihar (Buxar, Ranchi), Himachal Pradesh (Kulu), Madhya Pradesh (Mhow), Maharashtra ( Bombay, Poona), Nilgiri Hills, Rajasthan (Khandela), throughout India ( Bhattacharya 1997), Andaman Islands (South Andaman) ( Chandra & Rajan 2004), Jharkhand (East Singhbhum, Ranchi), Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal ( Sambath 2014), India ( Irungbam et al. 2016, Kirti et al. 2016), Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh ( Chandra et al. 2019). Global records: Burma, Ceylon, Java ( Hampson 1896b), Vietnam ( Tonkin) ( de Joannis 1930), Sri Lanka, Burma, Java, Sabah, Sambawa, New Guinea, also in West Africa, lowland to montane (at least 600 m) ( Robinson et al. 1994), Borneo, Burma, Java, Pakistan (Karachi), Sri Lanka ( Bhattacharya 1997), Nepal ( Yamanaka 1998), Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Java, Sabah, Sumbawa, New Guinea, West Africa ( Irungbam et al. 2016), Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Australia ( Chandra et al. 2019).