Botyodes diniasalis Walker
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Spilomelinae
- Tribe: Margaroniini
- Genus: Botyodes
- Distribution: Africa, India (NW, Himanchal Pradesh, Himalaya?), Nepal, Sabah, Indonesia (N. Sumatra). China (S, E), Taiwan, Japan.
- Habitat: Lowland to lower montane <2000m.
- Wing Length: 14.5mm
Taxonomy
The male holotype of Botys diniasalis Walker, 1859: 649 from China (Shanghai) is in the BMNH (Fortune's Coll.).
- syn. Pyrausta capnosalis Caradja 1925:369 as a var of diniasalis (LepIndex), TL China (Canton [Guangzhou]).
- syn. Pyrausta diniasalis capnosalis (Caradja, 1925: 369) TL China, (Shanghai). Infra specific.
- syn. Sylepta [sic] kosemponis Strand, 1918: 53-54. TL Taiwan, (Kosempo). syn. nov. (Inoue 1984: 234).
Wang & Speidel (2000: 237) treated this sp. in Botyodes Guenée, 1854: 320-321.
This species is very similar to some members of the Old World Ategumia group which we treat in Uresiphita (It may also need also to be placed in a new genus and a different subfamily). Its presence in Botyodes was confirmed by Singh. et al. (2019).
Description
A yellow species with orange brown transverse markings. The FW has a transparent discocellular mark outlined in brown and the FW has a broad brown submarginal fascia towards the tornus. There is slight sexual dimorphism the males having elongated and thinner abdomens than the females. The very similar Botys principalis Leech, 1889: 69, pl. 3, fig. 9 has broader linear markings but a smaller discocellular mark. See also Pyrausta ochracealis Walker, 1865 [1866]: 1446 and Ategumia euryphaea Meyrick, 1932, and some other Uresiphita spp. such as Botys fatualis Lederer, 1863: 376, 475, pl. 11 fig. 15 which are superficially similar. Schulze taxon #315 tmw/kitching taxon #859
References
- Guenée, A. (1854) Deltoïdes et pyralites. In Boisduval, J.A. & Guenée, A., Hist. nat. des Insectes (Spec. gén. Lépid.) Vol. 8, 448pp. + 10 pls., Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret: Paris.
- Strand, E. (1918) in H. Sauter’s Formosa-Ausbeute: Pyralididae, Subfam. Pyraustinae., Dt. ent. Z., Iris, Dresden, 32, (1/2): 33-91.
- Meyrick, E. (1932 [1930-1936]), Exot. Microlepidopt. 4, 1-642, Privately published, [Taylor & Francis], London.
- Wang, HsiauYue. & Speidel, W (2000) Guide Book to Insects in Taiwan (19). Pyraloidea (Pyralidae, Crambidae). Shu Shin Books, Taipei, Taiwan: pp 295.
- Schulze, C.H. (2000) Auswirkungen anthropogener Störungen auf die Diversität von Herbivoren. (Analys von Nachtfalterzönosen entlang von Habitatgradienten in Ost-Malaysia). Unpubl. PhD Thesis, University of Bayreuth, Germany: 350 pp.
- Singh, N., Kirti, J. S., Singh, H. & Ranjan, R. (2019) Two new genera for the Botyodes species complex (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae). Zootaxa 4623 (2): 387-395.
- Walker, F. (1859d [May 10]) Pyralides, In; List Spec. Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. Ser. 4, 18: 509-798.
- Caradja, A. (1925b) Euber Chinas Pyraliden, Tortriciden, Tineiden nebst kurze Betrachtungen, zu denen das Studium dieser Fauna Veranlassung gibt Acad. Romana Mem. Sect. Stiint. ser. iii, 3 (7): 257-383, 2 pls.
