Parotis arachnealis (Walker, 1859)
| FAMILY | Crambidae |
| SUBFAMILY | Spilomelinae |
| GENUS | Parotis |
| SPECIES | arachnealis |
| AUTHOR | (Walker, 1859) |
| ORIGINAL COMBINATION | Margaronia Arachnealis |
| TYPE LOCALITY | Sierra Leone, leg. J. Foxcroft. |
| GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES | / |
| TYPE SPECIMEN(S) | Holotype ♂, BMNH. |
| STATUS | Species |
| PUBLICATION | Walker F. 1859c. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XVIII. - Pyralides. - — 18:i-iv, 509-798. |
| PAGINATION | 527 |
Species Distribution
| COUNTRY | PROVINCE/STATE | PUBLICATION | PAGE |
| Congo, the Democratic Republic of the | Strand E. 1913b. Lepidoptera aus dem belgischen Kongo. - Archiv für Naturgeschichte 78 (A) (1912)(12):89-100. | 98 | |
| Sierra Leone | Walker F. 1859c. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XVIII. - Pyralides. - — 18:i-iv, 509-798. | 527 |
Host Plants
| FAMILY | SPECIES | COUNTRY | PUBLICATION | PAGE |
| Apocynaceae | Picralima sp. | East Africa | Sevastopulo D. G. 1977. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). - Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society 36(314):45-50. | 49 |
