Botyodes euryphaea Meyrick
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Spilomelinae
- Genus: Botyodes
- Distribution: Sri Lanka, India (Tamilnadu), Sabah, Java, Taiwan, China.
- Habitat: Lowland
- Wing Length: 13mm
Taxonomy
Pyrausta euryphaea Meyrick, 1932: 318; n.n.f. for Botys signatalis Walker, 1865 [1866]: 1444, (preocc. by Pyrausta signatalis Walker, 1865 [1866]: 1282.
- syn. Botys signatalis Walker, 1865 [1866]: 1444) [a secondary junior homonym of Rhodaria signatalis Walker, 1865 [1866]: 1282)].
- syn. assignatalis Joannis, 1929 [1930]: 704 Unnec repl. n.
- syn. Botys medullalis Snellen 1898: 180, pl. 8 fig 10. TL W. Java.
The male lectotype chosen by Munroe et al. 1985: 79 from W. Java (Megamendoeng), is in the RMNH, Leiden.
Treated in Pyrausta in Globiz but the generic placement is uncertain and here it is provisionally treated in Botyodes, and treated in the Spilomelinae.
Rose & Pajni (1979: 4) erected of a new genus Rattana with P. euryphaea Meyrick 1932 as the TS. This genus is a junior objective syn. of Sciorista Warren, 1890: 475. (Fletcher & Nye, 1984: 133).
Description
This yellow and brown moth is very similar to Botyodes diniasalis (Walker 1859).
Note that it aso resembles some forms of Uresiphita. marginalis adipalis (Warren, 1896) and some other Uresiphita spp. such as Ategumia [Botys] fatualis (Lederer, 1863: 376, 475, pl. 11 fig. 15). See Botyodes diniasalis which is very similar.
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.
- Walker (1865 [1866 Jan 13]) List Spec Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. 34, (Suppl. 4): 1121-1533.
- Snellen, P.C.T. ([1899] 1898) Eenige aanteekeningen over Pyraliden Tijdschr. v. Ent., 41: 173-193, pl. 1 figs. 7-9.
- Joannis, J. de, 1929 [1930]. Lépidoptères Hétérocères du Tonkin. Part 3. Annls Soc. ent. Fr., 98: 559-834. [in Fr.]
- Meyrick, E. (1932 [1930-1936]), Exot. Microlepidopt. 4, 1-642, Privately published, [Taylor & Francis], London.
- Amsel, H. G. (1956) Microlepidoptera venezolana, Boln Ent. venez. 10, 1-336.
- Warren, W. (1890a) LVIII Descriptions of some new Genera of Pyralidae. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 6, (6) (36): 474-479.
- Walker, F. (1859d [May 10]) Pyralides, In; List Spec. Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. Ser. 4, 18: 509-798.
- Warren, W. (1896b) XVI New species of moths from the Khasia Hills, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, (18): 107-119.
