Parapoynx fluctuosalis, Zeller, 1852

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 : 154-155

69. Parapoynx fluctuosalis ( Zeller, 1852: 27, figs 47–48, pl. 3 fig. 11) ( Nymphula )

Type locality: South Africa, Natal

= Parapoynx linealis Guenée, 1854: 271

Type locality: Indes orientales [East Indies]

= Oligostigma chrysippusalis Walker, 1859a: 432

Type locality: China

= Oligostigma obitalis Walker, 1859a: 432

Type locality: Ceylon [Sri Lanka]. Australia

= Hydrocampa circealis Walker, 1859a: 460

Type locality: South Africa

= Oligostigma curta Butler, 1879b: 270

Type locality: Hawaii

= Nymphula luteivittalis Mabille, 1880a : xxvi

Type locality: Madagascar

= Paraponyx [sic] oryzalis Wood-Mason, 1885

Type locality: Burma [ Myanmar]

= Paraponyx [sic] rugosalis Möschler, 1890: 318

Type locality: Puerto Rico

Distribution. Indian records: Hindostan ( Walker 1859a), Throughout the tropical and subtropical zones, on the north to Formosa and the Sandwich Islands, on the South to Australis ( Hampson 1896b), Calcutta ( Sevastopulo 1935), Andaman and Nicobar, Assam, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Orissa, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal ( Arora 2000), Kerala ( Mathew & Menon, 1984), India ( Poltavsky et al. 2018), Punjab ( Singh et al. 2019d), Bihar, Jharkhand (Singh 2019), Nagaland, Delhi, Tripura, Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Mizoram, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh ( Sondhi et al. 2021), Thar Desert ( Chandra et al. 2021). Global records: Bhutan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh ( Arora 2000), Bhutan, Nepal, China, Japan, Thailand, W. Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Brunei, Sabah, Sarawak, Labuan, Philippines, Australia ( Irungbam et al. 2016), tropical, recorded from all continents, in SE Asia from Thailand, W. Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, java, Bali, Brunei, Sabah, Sarawak, Labuan, Philippines. Lowland associated with ponds and lakes ( Robinson et al. 1994), throughout tropical and sub-tropical parts of the Old World. Morocco, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Namibia, Congo, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Madagascar, Comores, Mauritius (D. J. L. Agassiz 2012), Botswana, Burkina Faso, Comoros, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mali, Australia, Fiji, Guam, Hawaii, the Galapagos Islands, Puerto Rico, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, China, Italy (Sardinia), Japan, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, United Kingdom ( Poltavsky et al. 2018).