795. Lamprosema niphealis (Walker, 1859a: 638) (Botys) Type locality: Sierra Leone = Botys epastalis Swinhoe, 1885: 874 Type locality: Bombay [Mumbai, Maharashtra, India] = Lamprosema niphealis ab. rufaurina Ghesquière, 1942: 143 Type locality: Congo Belge [Democratic Republic of the Congo], Lulua, Kapanga Distribution. Indian records: Bombay (Swinhoe 1885), Nagas (Hampson 1896b), Calcutta (West Bengal), Bombay (Maharashtra), Sikkim, Nicobar Island, Assam (Gupta 1994), West Bengal, Tripura (Reddy & Murthy 2021). Global records: West Africa (Hampson 1896b), Chagos, Maldive, Minicoy, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Vietnam (Tong-King), West Africa (Sierra Leone) (Bhattacharya 1997), Vietnam (Tonkin) (de Joannis 1930), Dem. Rep. Congo (Ghesquière 1942).

Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ranjan, Rahul, Talukdar, Avishek, Joshi, Rahul, Kirti, Jagbir Singh, Chandra, Kailash & Mally, Richard, 2022, A catalogue of Indian Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera), pp. 1-423 in Zootaxa 5197 (1) on page 297, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5197.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7252292