365. Lobesia aeolopa Meyrick, 1907

Lobesia aeolopa Meyrick, 1907; J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 17: 976.

= Lobesia dryopelta Meyrick, 1932; Exotic Microlepid. 4: 225.

= Lobesia eustales Bradley, 1956; Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. 4: 146.

TL: Ceylon [= Sri Lanka], Maskeliya ( aeolopa); Indonesia, Java, teak-forest ( dryopelta); Australia, Lord Howe Island, Mt. Lidgbird ( eustales).

Distribution: India (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Maharashtra, Punjab, Uttarakhand); Australia; Africa (Kenya, Madagascar); China; Japan; Indonesia (Java); Korea; Myanmar; Solomon Islands; Sri Lanka; Taiwan; Thailand; Vietnam (Bae & Komai 1991; Robinson et al. 1994; Pinkaew 2007; Koçak & Kemal 2012; Nedoshivina 2013).

Host: Host plants include Mangifera indica (Anacardiaceae), Solidago canadensis, Blumea lacera, Dendranthema morifolium, Pluchea indica (Asteraceae), Jatropha curcas, Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae), Caesalpinia, Cajanus cajan (Fabaceae), Leucas cephalotes (Lamiaceae), Gossypium (Malvaceae), Zea mays (Poaceae), Coffea (Rubiaceae), Citrus (Rutaceae), Litchi chinensis (Sapindaceae), Melochia umbellata (Sterculiaceae), Camellia sinensis (Theaceae), Lantana camara (Verbenaceae) (Meyrick 1916; Diakonoff 1982; Bae & Komai 1991; Nasu 1993).

Illustrations: Adult (Nedoshivina 2013: 226) and genitalia (Clarke 1958: 464; Rose et al. 2005: 277).