Palpita vitrealis ( Rossi, 1794: 42 ) (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 : 326

955. Palpita vitrealis ( Rossi, 1794: 42) (Phalaena)

Type locality: Italy

= Pyralis unionalis Hübner, [1796] 1796 –1836d: 21, pl. 20 fig. 132

Type locality: South Europe

= Botys quinquepunctalis Boisduval, 1833b: 117 , pl. 16 fig.5

Type locality: [ Mauritius, Bourbon ] Reunion

= Margarodes transvisalis Guenée, 1854: 304

Type locality: Central Africa , Pays des Namaquois

= Margarodes septempunctalis Mabille, 1880a : xxv

Type locality: Madagascar

Distribution. Indian records: Sikkim, Darjeeling ( Snellen 1890), Calcutta ( Sevastopulo 1935), North India ( Rose & Dhillon 1980c), Punjab (Patiala, Chandigarh), Himachal Pradesh (Solan, Shimla), Uttarakhand (Dehradun) ( Kirti & Singh 1992), throughout India ( Gupta 1994), Karnataka ( Reddy et al. 2019), Kerala, Tamil Nadu ( Das et al. 2020a), Madhya Pradesh ( Reddy & Murthy 2021). Global records: S. Europe, S. and W. Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, Aden, Ceylon, Australia ( Hampson 1896b), Dem. Rep. Congo ( Ghesquière 1942), Azores ( Meyer et al. 1997, Borges et al. 2005), Cosmopolitan, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe (De Prins & De Prins 2011–2021), Mali, Australia, South Asia, Canary Islands, Japan, Madeira, South Europe ( Poltavsky et al. 2018).