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Abrostola anophioides Moore 1882

Description

Abrostola anophioides Moore, 1882

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Abrostola anophioides Moore, 1882: 148. Type-locality: India, Darjeeling; Behounek et al., 2010: 19.

Specimens examined. 2 males, Nanchuan District, Chongqing, 828 m, 6.viii.2020, coll. Yanqing Hu & Yong Yu; 1 male, Qianjiang District, Chongqing, 763 m, 13.viii.2020, coll. Yanqing Hu & Yong Yu; 7 males, Longcanggou, Yingjing Country, Sichuan Prov., 18–23.vi.2016, coll. Min Wang; 1 male, Qianfeng District, Guang’an, Sichuan Prov., 445 m, 7.viii.2020, coll. Yanqing Hu & Yong Yu.

Distribution. The species is known from the southern and south-eastern Himalayas (Nepal, India, SE China), all parts of Indochina, the Guangdong and Fujian area, Taiwan, Hainan, and from Java (Behounek et al., 2010). In this survey, we found that it also occurs in Chongqing and Sichuan of China.

Notes

Published as part of Hu, Yan-Qing, Yu, Yong & Huang, Zhen-Fu, 2021, Notes on the species of Abrostola Ochsenheimer, 1816 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae Plusiinae) from China, with the description of a new species, pp. 141-145 in Zootaxa 4942 (1) on page 142, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4942.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/4596274

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2016-06-18 , 2020-08-06 , 2020-08-07 , 2020-08-13
Verbatim event date
2016-06-18/23 , 2020-08-06 , 2020-08-07 , 2020-08-13
Scientific name authorship
Moore
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Abrostola
Species
anophioides
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Abrostola anophioides Moore, 1882 sec. Hu, Yu & Huang, 2021

References

  • Moore, F. (1882) Descriptions of new Indian Lepidopterous Insects from the collection of the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson. Heterocera 2. Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 89 - 198.
  • Behounek, G., Ronkay, L. & Ronkay, G. (2010) The Witt Catalogue. A taxonomic atlas of the Eurasian and North African Noctuoidea. Vol. 4. Plusiinae II. Heterocera Press, Budapest, 280 pp.