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Nishada flabrifera Moore

Description

Nishada flabrifera Moore

(Figs. 6–10)

Nishada flabrifera Moore, 1878, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878: 23 (Type locality: [India] Calcutta district). Material examined. India. Assam: Jatinga, 21.IX.2008, 2males. Meghalaya: Shella, 03.IX.2008, 1male. Mizoram: Thingsul, 18.IX.2009, 3males. (Coll. Joshi, R. & Singh, N.) (Reg. No. PUP /RJ – 107).

Distribution. India (Nilgiris, Travancore, Kolkata) (Kirti & Singh 2015), North East India (new record); Nepal (Kishida, 1995), China (Fang 2000), Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Java (Černý & Pinratana 2009); Laos, Peninsular Malaysia (Bucsek 2012)

Remarks. The species is reported for the first time from North East India.

Notes

Published as part of Joshi, Rahul, Kirti, Jagbir S. & Singh, Navneet, 2016, A new species of genus Nishada Moore, 1878 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) from India, pp. 128-132 in Zootaxa 4179 (1) on page 131, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4179.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/163730

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
PUP
Event date
2008-09-03 , 2008-09-21 , 2009-09-18
Family
Arctiidae
Genus
Nishada
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Moore
Species
flabrifera
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
2008-09-03 , 2008-09-21 , 2009-09-18

References

  • Moore, F. (1878) A revision of certain genera of European and Asiatic Lithosiidae, with characters of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1878, 3 - 37. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1878. tb 07927. x
  • Kirti, J. S. & Singh, N. (2015) Arctiid Moths of India. Vo l. 1. Nature Books India, New Delhi, 205 pp.
  • Kishida, Y. (1995) Moths of Nepal, Vol. 4. Tinea, 2 (Supplement), 39 - 43
  • Fang, C. (2000) Fauna Sinica Insecta. Vol. 19. Lepidoptera: Arctiidae. Science Press, Beijing, 589 pp.
  • Cerny, K. & Pinratana, A. (2009) Moths of Thailand, Vol. 6, Arctiidae. Brothers of Saint Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok, 283 pp.
  • Bucsek, K. (2012) Erebidae, Arctiinae (Lithosiini, Arctiini) of Malay Peninsula - Malaysia; Institute of Zoology SAS, Bratislava, 170 pp.