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Botys iopasalis Walker, 1859; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 18: 652; TL: Hindostan. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso1618brit/page/652/mode/1up?view=theater
Botys jopasalis[sic, recte iopasalis]; Moore, 1878, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1878 (4): 850. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen782zool/page/850/mode/1up?view=theater
FBI, Hampson, Vol. 4, Pg. 334, # 4971.
Roger Kendrick PhD Plates. Pl. 16/11.
Genus confirmed from Pyralid website. Lepindex lists as Pleuroptya iopasalis
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/554981-Patania-iopasalis
Similar species: Patania obfuscalis Yamanaka, 1998
Pleuroptya obfuscalis Yamanaka, 1998. MON Part 5, Pg. 106, Pl. 142/30.
Expanse 29-30mm. Very similar to P. iopasalis (Walker, 1859), described from India (cf Inoue, 1982: 343, pl. 40, fig.14 (male)), in maculation, but wings broader in both sexes; ground colour of upperside of both wings somewhat strongly tinted with ochreous, basal and terminal area of
forewing much more densely suffused with brownish fuscous; orbicular spot usually indistinct.
Patania clava (Extralimital) at Xu, D. and Du, X.C., 2016. A new species of Patania from the Hainan Island, China (Lepidoptera, Crambidae). ZooKeys, (614), p.129.
Botys jopasalis[sic, recte iopasalis]; Moore, 1878, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1878 (4): 850. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen782zool/page/850/mode/1up?view=theater
FBI, Hampson, Vol. 4, Pg. 334, # 4971.
Roger Kendrick PhD Plates. Pl. 16/11.
Genus confirmed from Pyralid website. Lepindex lists as Pleuroptya iopasalis
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/554981-Patania-iopasalis
Similar species: Patania obfuscalis Yamanaka, 1998
Pleuroptya obfuscalis Yamanaka, 1998. MON Part 5, Pg. 106, Pl. 142/30.
Expanse 29-30mm. Very similar to P. iopasalis (Walker, 1859), described from India (cf Inoue, 1982: 343, pl. 40, fig.14 (male)), in maculation, but wings broader in both sexes; ground colour of upperside of both wings somewhat strongly tinted with ochreous, basal and terminal area of
forewing much more densely suffused with brownish fuscous; orbicular spot usually indistinct.
Patania clava (Extralimital) at Xu, D. and Du, X.C., 2016. A new species of Patania from the Hainan Island, China (Lepidoptera, Crambidae). ZooKeys, (614), p.129.
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