Ghesquierellana pallas (Meyrick, 1936)

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FAMILY	Crambidae
SUBFAMILY	Spilomelinae
GENUS	Ghesquierellana
SPECIES	pallas
AUTHOR	(Meyrick, 1936)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Phostria pallas, n. sp.
TYPE LOCALITY	[Democratic Republic of Congo, Equateur], Belgian Congo, Eala [5 km E of Mbandaka], 02.vii.1932, leg. J. Ghesquière.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	Latitude: 0°4'0" Longitude: 18°16'59" Toggle map
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Holotype ♀, RMCA; Paratype 1♀, lost (see K. Maes 1996b: 1410).
STATUS	Synonym of species
SYNONYM OF	hirtusalis
COMMENT	A junior subjective synonym of Botys hirtusalis Walker, 1859; synonymized by Viette (1958f: 144). Ghesquière (1942a: 135) erroneously used 'allotype' and 'paratype' for two specimens in the RMCA, which do not belong to the syntypes (see Maes 1996b: 1410).
PUBLICATION	Meyrick E. 1936b. Exotic Microlepidoptera 5. - — 5(1-2):1-64.
PAGINATION	10