Palpita metallata (Fabricius, 1781)

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FAMILY	Crambidae
SUBFAMILY	Spilomelinae
GENUS	Palpita
SPECIES	metallata
AUTHOR	(Fabricius, 1781)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	[Phalaena] metallata
TYPE LOCALITY	[South Africa], "Habitat in Africa aequinoctiali].
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Not stated.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Fabricius J. C. 1781. Species Insectorum exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adiectis, observationibus, descriptionibus. - — 2:1–517.
PAGINATION	268–269

Species pictures

Synonyms

NAME	AUTHOR	STATUS
ocellata	(Hampson, 1898)	Synonym of species
picticaudalis	(Hampson, 1908)	Synonym of species

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Angola			New record (C. Hines)
Cameroon		Ghesquière J. 1940c. Quelques microlépidoptères gelechiadae congolais. - Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines 34(1):101–108.	159 (as ocellata)
Comoros	Mayotte (Maore)	Hampson G. F. 1908a. On the moths collected during the cruise of the "Valhalla" during the winter 1905–06 by Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 1(6):474–491.	479 (as picticaudalis)
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the		Strand E. 1913b. Lepidoptera aus dem belgischen Kongo. - Archiv für Naturgeschichte 78 (A) (1912)(12):89–100.	98 (as ocellata)
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	Bas Congo	Ghesquière J. 1940c. Quelques microlépidoptères gelechiadae congolais. - Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines 34(1):101–108.	159 (as ocellata)
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	Orientale	Holland W. J. 1920. Lepidoptera of the Congo, being a systematic list of the butterflies and moths collected by the American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition, together with descriptions of some hitherto undescribed species. - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 43(6):109–369, pls 6–14.	330 (as ocellata)
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	Katanga		New record (N. Voaden)
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	East Kasai	Ghesquière J. 1940c. Quelques microlépidoptères gelechiadae congolais. - Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines 34(1):101–108.	159 (as ocellata)
Gambia			New record (R. Goff)
Ghana		Ghesquière J. 1940c. Quelques microlépidoptères gelechiadae congolais. - Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines 34(1):101–108.	160 (as ocellata)
Kenya		Hampson G. F. 1908a. On the moths collected during the cruise of the "Valhalla" during the winter 1905–06 by Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 1(6):474–491.	479 (as picticaudalis)
Liberia			ISEA
Madagascar		Bippus M. 2019c. Pyraloidea of Mauritius and neighbouring islands (Lepidoptera). - Phelsuma 27:36–57.	44
Mali		Poltavsky A. N., Kravchenko V. D., Traore M. M., Traore S. F., Gergely P., Witt T. J., Sulak H., Beck R. H.-T., Junnila A., Revay E. E., Doumbia S., Beier J. C. & Müller G. C. 2018b. The Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) fauna of the woody savannah belt in Mali, West Africa. - Zootaxa 4457:39–69.
Nigeria		Lamborn W. A. 1914b. The agricultural pests of the Southern Provinces, Nigeria. - Bulletin of Entomological Research 5:197–214, pls 17–25.	213 (as ocellata)
Sierra Leone		Hampson G. F. 1899a. A revision of the moths of the subfamily Pyraustinae and family Pyralidae, part 1. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1898(4):590–761, pls 49–50.	739 (as ocellata)
South Africa		Fabricius J. C. 1781. Species Insectorum exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adiectis, observationibus, descriptionibus. - — 2:1–517.	268
Tanzania, United Republic of		Ghesquière J. 1940c. Quelques microlépidoptères gelechiadae congolais. - Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaines 34(1):101–108.	160 (as ocellata)
Uganda	Sesse Islands	Grünberg K. 1910a. Zur Kenntnis der Lepidopterenfauna der Sesse-Inseln im Victoria Nyanza. - Sitzungsberichten der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1910(3):146–181.	161
Uganda		Hampson G. F. 1908a. On the moths collected during the cruise of the "Valhalla" during the winter 1905–06 by Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 1(6):474–491.	479 (as picticaudalis)

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Apocynaceae	Funtumia sp.	Congo, DR	Ghesquière J. 1942a. Lépidoptères Microlépidoptères (deuxième partie). - Annales du Musée du Congo belge, Zoologie [3, Arthropodes] section 2, Catalogues raisonnés (3) 7:121–240.	159 (as ocellata)
Apocynaceae	Funtumia elastica	Nigeria	Lamborn W. A. 1914a. On the relationship between certain West African insects, especially ants, Lycaenidae and Homoptera. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1913(3):436–503.	213 (as ocellata)