Maruca vitrata ( Fabricius, 1787: 215 ) (Phalaena)

Singh, Navneet, Ranjan, Rahul, Talukdar, Avishek, Joshi, Rahul, Kirti, Jagbir Singh, Chandra, Kailash & Mally, Richard, 2022, A catalogue of Indian Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5197 (1), pp. 1-423 : 303

823. Maruca vitrata ( Fabricius, 1787: 215) (Phalaena)

Type locality: Tranquebaria [ Tharangambadi, Tamil Nadu]

= Crochiphora testulalis Geyer in Hübner, [1832] 1826–1832p: 12, pl. [109] figs 629, 630

Type locality: Argentina, Buenos-Aires

= Hydrocampe aquitilis Guérin-Méneville, 1832 : pl. 90 fig. 9

Type locality: Java

= Botys bifenestralis Mabille, 1880a : xxv

Type locality: Madagascar

= Hydrocampe aquatilis (misspell.) ( Shibuya 1928b: 258)

Distribution. Indian records: Punjab ( Walker 1859a), Poona ( Swinhoe 1885), Sikkim ( Snellen 1890), Calcutta ( Sevastopulo 1935), Kerala ( Mathew & Menon 1984), North India ( Rose & Dhillon 1980c), throughout India ( Gupta 1994), India ( Wang & Speidel 2000), Nicobar Island ( Irungbam et al. 2016), West Himalaya ( Sanyal et al. 2018), Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh ( Chandra et al. 2019), Bihar, Jharkhand (Singh 2019), Tamil Nadu ( Das et al. 2020a), Haryana, Andaman and Nicobar, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal ( Das et al. 2020b), Bhubaneswar ( Pattanaik et al. 2021), Delhi ( Komal et al. 2021), Thar Desert, Kutch ( Chandra et al. 2021). Global records: Congo, Villanova, Bogota, Ceylon, Moreton, Honduras, Sarawak, Borneo ( Walker 1859a), Dem. Rep. Congo ( Holland 1920), Vietnam ( Tonkin) ( de Joannis 1930), Japan, Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands: Chichijima, widespread in the world, except far north ( Inoue 1996b 1998), Réunion ( Viette & Guillermet 1996), accidentally introduced in Europe, recorded from France by Luquet & Lachaise (1985), from Belgium by Janssens 1991, in both cases as Maruca testulalis ( Leraut 1997) , Nepal ( Yamanaka 1998), China, Taiwan, Bhutan, Nepal, Indonesia, Borneo, Australia, North and South America, Africa (incl. Madagascar) ( Wang & Speidel 2000), introduced into North America ( Heppner 2003), Namibia: Brandberg ( Maes 2004), Korea ( Bae et al. 2008), Bhutan, Pantropical, Nepal, China, Macau, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong ( Irungbam et al. 2016), Pantropical. Oman, United Arab Emirates, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe (De Prins & De Prins 2011–2021), Mali, Oriental, Australian regions ( Poltavsky et al. 2018), Malaysia, Philippines, Laos, USA, Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica ( Chandra et al. 2019), Singapore ( Das et al. 2020b).

Genus Massepha Walker, 1859a: 488