463. Pyrausta phoenicealis (Hübner, [1818] 1816–1826k: 22, pl. [20] figs 115–116) (Haematia) Type locality: USA, Florida = Rhodaria nerialis Boisduval, 1833b: 119 Type locality: Mauritius = Rhodaria flegialis Walker, 1859a: 316 Type locality: USA, New York = Rhodaria panopealis Walker, 1859a: 318 Type locality: China = Botys coecilialis Walker, 1859a: 581 Type locality: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo = Rhodaria probalis Walker, 1859a: 923 Type locality: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro = Rhodaria ocellusalis Walker, 1859a: 923 Type locality: Sierra Leone = Rhodaria noraxalis Walker, 1859a: 926 Type locality: not stated = Rhodaria catenalis Walker, 1866a: 1282 Type locality: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo = Rhodaria juncturalis Walker, 1866a: 1283 Type locality: South Hindostan = Rhodaria concatenalis Walker, 1866a: 1284 Type locality: India, West Bengal, Darjeeling = Botys phaenicialis (misspell.) (Snellen 1875: 193) = Botys phaenicealis (misspell.) (Snellen 1883: 125) = Myriostephes heliamma Meyrick, 1885b: 448 Type locality: Queensland Distribution. Indian records: Sikkim, Bombay Presidency, Nilgiris (Hampson 1896b), Calcutta (Sevastopulo 1938), India (Poltavsky et al. 2018), Punjab, North-West Himalayas, Assam (Singh et al. 2019), Kerala (Das et al. 2020a), Jharkhand, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand (Sondhi et al. 2021), Delhi (Komal et al. 2021). Global records: Brazil, North America (Guenée 1854), Réunion (Guenée 1862), Celebes [Sulawesi] Java (Snellen 1883), N. and S. America, W. Indies, Africa, China, Australia (Hampson 1896b), South Africa (Janse 1917), Taiwan (Yamanaka 1972), Namibia: Brandberg (Maes 2004), China (Hebei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Hainan) (Hua 2005), cosmopolitan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Comoros, DR Congo, Gambia, Madagascar, Mauritius, Namibia, Réunion, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Mali, Australia, U.S.A., Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Taiwan, China, Europe, Japan, Turkey (Poltavsky et al. 2018).

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 pages 228-229, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5197.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7252292