Sciorista assignatalis ( de Joannis, 1930: 704 ) (Pyrausta)

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 : 353

1097. Sciorista assignatalis ( de Joannis, 1930: 704) (Pyrausta)

Type locality: Indonesia, Java

= Botys signatalis Walker, 1866a: 1444

Type locality: Indonesia, Java

= Pyrausta euryphaea Meyrick, 1932: 318 (unnecessary replacement name)

Distribution. Indian records: N. W. Himalayas, Nilgiris ( Hampson 1896b), North India ( Rose & Dhillon 1980c), Kerala ( Mathew & Menon 1984), West and Central Himalaya ( Sanyal et al. 2018), Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand ( Pathania et al. 2021b). Global records: Ceylon, Java ( Hampson 1896b), Nepal ( Yamanaka 1995), Philippines ( Kemal et al. 2019).

Remarks: Botys signatalis Walker, 1866a: 1444 is a secondary junior homonym of Rhodaria signatalis Walker, 1866a: 1282 . The replacement name is Pyrausta assignatalis de Joannis, 1930 . Meyrick (1930 –36) subsequently established an unnecessary replacement name P. euryphaea Meyrick, 1932 . Furthermore, the illustration of Botys medullalis Snellen, 1899 (type locality: Indonesia, W Java) in Snellen (1899: pl. 8) shows that B. medullalis is clearly different from the North American R. signatalis Walker and it seems to have been synonymized with the wrong signatalis . Comparing Snellen’s (1899) plate 8, fig. 10 with Sciorista euryphaea (= B. signatalis Walker, 1866a: 1444 ) in Kemal et al. (2019: fig. 67), there are clear differences in the maculation between the specimens, ruling out conspecificity. Therefore, Botys medullalis Snellen, 1899 is reinstated to species status as Sciorista medullalis ( Snellen, 1899) , stat. rev., comb. nov.