Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea
Crambidae
Spilomelinae
Sciorista Warren, 1890
Botys signatalis Walker, [1866] 1865
= Rattana Rose & Pajni, 1979 (TS: Pyrausta euryphaea Meyrick, 1932)
Sciorista assignatalis de Joannis, 1930 (Pyrausta)
Indonesia, Java
= Botys signatalis Walker, 1866a (TL: Indonesia, Java)
= Pyrausta euryphaea Meyrick, 1932 (unnecessary replacement name)
Botys signatalis Walker, 1866: 1444 is a secondary junior homonym of Rhodaria signatalis Walker, 1866: 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.
Distribution
N. W. Himalayas, Nilgiris, North India, West and Central Himalaya
Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Uttarakhand
Indian Himalaya, Western Ghats
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