Sameodes cancellalis ( Zeller, 1852: 34 ) (Botys)

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 : 351

1090. Sameodes cancellalis ( Zeller, 1852: 34) (Botys)

Type locality: Caffrorum terra [Southern Africa], in tractibus fluvorum Limpoponis et Gariepis [along Limpopo and Orange Rivers]

= Stenia pipleisalis Walker, 1859a: 420

Type locality: Sierra Leone

= Lepyrodes lepidalis Walker, 1859a: 465

Type locality: Ceylon [ Sri Lanka]. North Hindostan

= Samea sidealis Walker, 1859a: 937

Type locality: Sierra Leone

= Hymenia meridionalis Walker, 1866a: 1314

Type locality: South Hindostan

= Sameodes trithyralis Snellen, 1880a: 218

Type locality: Celebes [Sulawesi], Java

= Samea vespertinalis Saalmüller, 1880: 300

Type locality: Madagascar

Distribution. Indian records: North Hindostan ( Walker 1859a), Darjeeling ( Moore 1867), India ( Hampson 1896b), Calcutta ( Sevastopulo 1935), North-eastern extra-peninsular area, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Pusa ( Mandal & Bhattacharya 1980), North India ( Rose & Dhillon 1980c), Kerala ( Mathew & Menon 1984), Nilgiri (Tamil Nadu) ( Gupta 1994), Andaman Islands (South Andaman) ( Chandra & Rajan 2004), Pench, Kanha, Satpura, Van vihar, Bandhavgarh ( Chandra et al. 2006), Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve, throughout India: Madhya Pradesh (Hoshangabad, Seoni, Sidhi) ( Chandra 2009 ), India ( Poltavsky et al. 2018), West Himalaya ( Sanyal et al. 2018), Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra ( Chandra et al. 2019), Jharkhand (Singh 2019), Haryana, Andaman, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, West Bengal ( Das et al. 2020b), Odisha, Karnataka, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh ( Sondhi et al. 2021), Thar Desert ( Chandra et al. 2021). Global records: Throughout Africa, Ceylon, Burma, Java, Australia, Fiji ( Hampson 1896b), Vietnam ( Tonkin) ( de Joannis 1930), Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, W Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, New Guinea, Australia, Fiji, W. and S. Africa, lowland ( Robinson et al. 1994), Nepal ( Yamanaka 1998), Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Macau, W. Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, New Guinea, Australia, Fiji, West and South Africa ( Irungbam et al. 2016), Palaeotropical, penetrates to Palaearctic, British Indian Ocean Territory , Cameroon, Comoros, DR Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Réunion, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe (De Prins & De Prins 2011–2021), Mali, Australia, Indonesia (Java, Sulawesi), Sri Lanka ( Poltavsky et al. 2018), Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Nigeria, Kenya, Madagascar ( Chandra et al. 2019).