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).