Patania balteata ( Fabricius, 1798: 457 ) (Phalaena)

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 : 330

970. Patania balteata ( Fabricius, 1798: 457) (Phalaena)

Type locality: India orientali

= Botys crocealis Duponchel, 1834: 365 , pl. 235 fig. 6

Type locality: Greece, Peloponnese, Moree & France, Montpellier

= Botys aurantiacalis Fischer von Röslerstamm, [1840] : 213, pl. 75 fig. 3

Type locality: Croatia, Fiume [Rijeka]

= Botys mysolalis Walker, 1866a: 1423

Type locality: Mysol [Misool, West Papua]

= Botys aurea Butler, 1879e: 76 , pl. 59 fig. 12

Type locality: Japan, Yokohama

= Sylepta [sic] irregularis L. W. Rothschild, 1915a: 136

Type locality: Dutch New Guinea [Papua], Snow Mountains, Base Camp

= Sylepta [sic] evergestialis Strand, 1918a: 51

Type locality: Taiwan, Kosempo

= Pleuroptya balteata africalis P. Leraut, 2005: 85 , fig. 38

Type locality: Côte d’Ivoire, Bingueville

Distribution. Indian records: Poona, Bombay ( Swinhoe 1885), throughout India ( Hampson 1896b), Assam, Nilgiris, Kalkutta [Calcutta] ( Klima 1939), North India ( Rose & Dhillon 1980c), Kerala ( Mathew & Menon, 1984), India ( Poltavsky et al. 2018), West and Central Himalaya ( Sanyal et al. 2018), Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh ( Chandra et al. 2019), Andaman Islands ( Rao & Sivaperuman 2020), Assam, Manipur ( Reddy & Murthy 2021). Global records: S. Europe, Japan, China, Ceylon, Burma ( Hampson 1896b), Nigeria ( Rothschild 1921a), Vietnam ( Tonkin) ( de Joannis 1930), Dem. Rep. Congo ( Ghesquière 1942), France (not recorded from Corsica), Spain, Italy, Sicilia (not recorded from Sardinia), Switzerland, ex-Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Crete ( Speidel 1996), Australia ( Shaffer et al. 1996), Réunion ( Viette & Guillermet 1996), Nepal ( Yamanaka 1998), Taiwan, Japan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Australia, S. Europe ( Wang & Speidel, 2000), from India to China and Japan, passing through Vietnam, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Sudan, ex-French Congo, Dahomey, Oubangui, South Africa, Madagascar, Grande Comore ( Leraut, 2005), Korea ( Bae et al. 2008), Palaeotropical penetrates to Palaearctic, Benin, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, DR Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Madagascar, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Zambia (De Prins & De Prins 2011–2021), Mali, Taiwan, China, Japan, South Europe ( Poltavsky et al. 2018), Pakistan, Myanmar, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Island, Fiji, Korea, Africa, Madagascar, USA, Canada, Costa Rica ( Chandra et al. 2019).