Botyodes asialis Guenée, 1854: 321

596. Botyodes asialis Guenée, 1854: 321 View in CoL View at ENA

Type locality: Central India . Bengale [East India / Bangladesh]. Nepal

= Botys chrysotalis Mabille, 1880b : cviii–cix

Type locality: Madagascar

= Botyodes asialis View in CoL f. liliputalis Strand, 1913: 76

Type locality: Cameroon, Alen

Distribution. Indian records: Kasaoli, Nilgiri Hills, Bombay, Poona, Khandala, Belgaum, Sikkim, Kulu, Simla, Buxa, Ranchi ( Swinhoe & Cotes 1889b), throughout India ( Hampson 1896b, Gupta 1994), Calcutta ( Sevastopulo 1935), Kerala (Mathew & Menon 1894), North India ( Rose & Dhillon 1980c), India ( Robinson et al. 1994, Poltavsky et al. 2018), Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal (Singh 2019) Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh ( Sondhi et al. 2021), Delhi ( Komal et al. 2021), Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura ( Reddy & Murthy 2021). Global records: Baluchistan, Ceylon, Burma, Borneo ( Hampson 1896b), Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Singapore, Sarawak, Philippines, New Guinea, also widespread in Africa, lowland to montane ( 2200 m) ( Robinson et al. 1994), Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, China, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sarawak, Philippines, New Guinea, Australia, Africa ( Irungbam et al. 2016), Other parts of Oriental Region, Africa, Papua, Fiji, Hawaii, also East and South Africa, Amboina, Annam, Borneo, Celebes, Fiji, Lord Howe Island, Myanmar, New Guinea, Pakistan ( Baluchistan), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Taiwan, Temate ( Bhattacharya 2000), Cameroon, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, La Réunion, Madagascar, Rwanda, Réunion, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mali, Australia, Fiji, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka ( Poltavsky et al. 2018), Vietnam (Singh 2019).