Patania

Poltavsky, Alexander N., Kravchenko, Vasiliy D., Traore, Mohammed M., Traore, Sekou F., Gergely, Petrányi, Witt, Thomas J., Sulak, Harry, Beck, T., Junnila, Amy, Revay, Edita E., Doumbia, Seydou, Beier, John C. & Muller, Gunter C., 2018, The Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) fauna of the woody savannah belt in Mali, West Africa, Zootaxa 4457 (1), pp. 39-69 : 56

53. Patania (= Pleuroptya ) balteata (Fabricius, 1798)

Synonymy follows Nuss et al. (2003 –2018):

= Botys aurea Butler, 1879 ;

= Botys crocealis Duponсhel, 1834;

= Botys aurantiacalis Fisсher von Röslerstamm, 1840;

= Botys mysolalis Walker, 1866 ;

= Patania balteata africalis P. Leraut, 2005 ;

= Sylepta [siс] evergestialis Strand, 1918;

= Sylepta [siс] irregularis Rothsсhild, 1915.

Material : 3689 ex. Mali, Bamako, Ouronina 12°5'39.78"N 8°24'3.16"W, 01.05.– 31.07.2014, leg. Kravchenko et al., 171 ex. same data except the date 01.08.– 19.11.2014 ( SMNH) .

Distribution: Palaeotropical, penetrates to Palaearctic. In Africa: Benin, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, DR Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Madagascar, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Zambia ( De Prins & De Prins 2018) and Mali (new record). Also in Oriental: India, Taiwan; Palaearctic: China, Japan, South Europe ( De Prins & De Prins 2018).

Host-plants: Anacardiaceae : Anacardium occidentale L., Cotinus coggygria Scop. , Pistacia terebinthus L., Pseudospondias microcarpa (A.Rich.) Engl. , Toxicodendron vernicifluum (Stokes) F. A. Barkley , ( De Prins & De Prins 2018); Fabaceae : Quercus serrata Murray , Castanea spp. ( Wikipedia 2018); Urticaceae : Boehmeria stipularis Wedd. ( De Prins & De Prins 2018) .