Diaphania indica ( Saunders, 1851: 163 )

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 : 270

672. Diaphania indica ( Saunders, 1851: 163) ( Eudioptes [sic])

Type locality: Indonesia, Java

= Botys hyalinalis Boisduval, 1833a: 265 (preoccupied)

Type locality: Madagascar

= Eudioptis capensis Zeller, 1852: 52

Type locality: South Africa, Limpopo

= Phakellura gazorialis Guenée, 1854: 297

Type locality: Indonesia, Java

= Phakellura zygaenalis Guenée, 1854: 297

Type locality: Israel / Palestinia , Judea

= Phakellura indicalis (misspell.) ( Moore 1867)

= Phakellura cucurbitalis Guenée, 1862: 64

Type locality: Réunion

= Phakellura garorialis (misspell.) ( Snellen 1882)

= Glyphodes intermedialis Dognin, 1904: 129

Type locality: Paraguay

Distribution. Indian records: Throughout the Ethiopian, Oriental, Australian regions ( Hampson 1896b), North India ( Rose & Dhillon 1980c), throughout India ( Gupta 1994), India ( Poltavsky et al. 2018), Central Himalaya ( Sanyal et al. 2018), West Bengal ( Chandra et al. 2019), Andaman and Nicobar Islands ( Rao & Sivaperuman 2020), Haryana, Andaman, Bihar, Great Nicobar, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal ( Das et al. 2020b), Kerala ( Das et al. 2020a), Arunachal Pradesh (Sondhi et al. 2021a), Thar Desert ( Chandra et al. 2021). Global records: Throughout the Ethiopian, Oriental, Australian regions ( Hampson 1896b), Bhutan, Nepal, China, Macau, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Central America, Africa, Madagascar, Arabia ( Irungbam et al. 2016), widely distributed throughout Indo-Australia, also found in Arabia, Africa, Madagascar, central America, lowland to montane (2200 m) ( Robinson et al. 1994), Korea ( Bae et al. 2008), Pantropical, penetrates to Palaearctic. Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, British Indian Ocean Territory , Cameroon, Cape Verde, Comoros, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Réunion, Saint Helena, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Mali, Australia, Fiji, Marquesas, Tahiti, U.S.A. (Florida), Indonesia (Borneo, Java), New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Canary Islands, China, Japan, Korea ( Poltavsky et al. 2018), Myanmar, Celebes, Pakistan (Karachi) ( Singh et al. 2019d), Israel, Paraguay ( Pathania et al. 2021b).