Leucinodes cordalis (Doubleday, 1843) Doubleday, 1843

Mally, Richard, Korycinska, Anastasia, Agassiz, David J. L., Hall, Jayne, Hodgetts, Jennifer & Nuss, Matthias, 2015, Discovery of an unknown diversity of Leucinodes species damaging Solanaceae fruits in sub-Saharan Africa and moving in trade (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea), ZooKeys 472, pp. 117-162 : 141

Taxon classification Animalia Lepidoptera Crambidae

Leucinodes cordalis (Doubleday, 1843) comb. n. (Margaritia)

Leucinodes cordalis (Doubleday, 1843). Type locality: New Zealand.

Daraba extensalis Walker, 1866 (synonymised by Hampson 1899). Type locality: New Zealand, Auckland.

Eretria obsistalis Snellen, 1880 (synonymised by Hampson 1899). Type locality: Indonesia, Sulawesi [Celebes], Boelekomba; Bonthain.

Sceliodes mucidalis Guenée, 1854 (synonymised by Hampson 1899). Type locality: Australia.

Material examined.

Syntype cordalis ♂ [circular white label with light blue border] "SYN- | TYPE", [circular white label] [front] "New | Zealand", [back] "42 | 55", [rectangular white label] " Margarita [sic!] | cordalis Doubld. | SYNTYPE | det. D.J. Carter, 1966", transparent capsule containing the head (BMNH).

Remarks.

Leucinodes cordalis is known to occur in New Zealand, Australia, and Indonesia: Sulawesi ( Snellen 1880, Dugdale 1988, Shaffer et al. 1996).