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Cyana puella subsp. puella puella (Drury 1773

Description

321. Cyana puella puella (Drury, 1773):3

Type locality: Madras [Chennai], India

Distribution: Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala (Singh et al. 2014), Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Gujarat, Bihar (Singh et al. 2020b).

Remark: The subspecies C. puella postflavida (Rothschild, 1924) is distributed in Sub-Saharan Africa and Arabian Peninsula (Karisch 2013).

Notes

Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Joshi, Rahul, Kirti, Jagbir Singh, Bisht, Santosh Singh & Param, Harsimranjeet Singh, 2021, A catalogue of Indian Arctiinae (Erebidae, Lepidoptera), pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 5058 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5058.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5602576

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References

  • Drury, D. (1773) Illustrations of Natural History. Wherein are exhibited upwards of two hundred and twenty figures of exotic insects, according to their different genera; very few of which have hitherto been figured by any author, being engraved and coloured from nature, with the greatest accuracy, and under the author's own inspection, on fifty copper-plates. With a particular description of each insect; interspersed with remarks and reflections on the nature and properties of many of them. Vol. 2. Printed for the author, London, 90 pp., pls. 1 - 50.
  • Singh, J., Singh, N. & Joshi, R. (2014) A Checklist of subfamily Arctiinae (Erebidae: Noctuoidea: Lepidoptera) from India. Records of Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper No. 367, 1 - 76.
  • Singh, N., Volynkin, A. V., Kirti, J. S., Datta, H. S. & Ivanova, M. S. (2020 b) A review of the genus Cyana Walker, 1854 from India, with descriptions of five new species and three new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini). Zootaxa, 4738 (1), 1 - 93. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4738.1.1
  • Karisch, T. (2013) Taxonomic revision of the African Cyana - species (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae, Lithosiinae) Esperiana, 18, 39 - 197.