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Endotricha mesenterialis

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  • 1. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block New, Alipore, Kolkata 700 053, West Bengal, India. & Department of Zoology & Environmental Sciences, Punjabi University, Patiala 147 002, Punjab, India. rranjan 720 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4983 - 0403
  • 2. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block New, Alipore, Kolkata 700 053, West Bengal, India. & nsgill 007 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6657 - 7983
  • 3. Department of Zoology & Environmental Sciences, Punjabi University, Patiala 147 002, Punjab, India. rranjan 720 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4983 - 0403 & prjagbir 2005 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9670 - 5931

Description

Endotricha mesenterialis (Walker, 1859: 285)

(Figs 12, 25)

Type locality: Malaysia, Borneo, Sarawak

= Endotricha suffusalis Walker, 1859: 390

Type locality: Ceylon

= Endotricha obscura Butler, 1886: 427–428

Type locality: Australia, Queensland, Rockhampton

= Endotricha eoidalis Snellen, 1895: 112–113, pl. 5 figs 2–3

Type locality: Buitenzorg [Indonesia, West Java, Bogor]

= Endotricha flavofascialis Fryer, 1912: 24, 25, pl. 1 fig. 21

Type locality: Seychelles, Mahé & Silhouette, 800–1000 ft.

= Endotricha mesenterialis mahensis Whalley, 1963: 423, pl. 5 figs 63, 66, pl. 19 fig. 190, pl. 32 fig. 276

Type locality: Seychelles

Material examined: India, Sikkim: Mangan, 2 ♁, 25.iv.2014 (8772/ H10); Dzongu, 1 ♁, 28.iv.2014 (13280/ H10); Mizoram: Mamit, 1 ♁, 29.ix.2013 (8773/ H10), 1 ♁, 09.ix.2016 (8774/ H10); Jharkhand: Saranda forest, Kiriburu, 2 ♁, 19.x.2013 (13281/H10); Dalma WLS, Pindrabera, 3 ♁, 22.x.2013 (13282/H10), R. Ranjan leg. (NZCZSI).

Diagnosis: E. mesenterialis (Fig. 12) is closely similar to E. valentis (Fig. 13), but is distinct from the latter in its longer process of the 1 st antennal segment. In male genitalia (Fig. 25), by the shorter uncus and socii; valva with ventral edge conspicuously bulged medially, saccular process comparatively shorter and reflexed costal piliform setae present (absent in E. valentis); the phallus bears an apical, spined digitate process, which is absent in E. valentis.

Distribution: India (Poona, NW Himalayas, Bombay, Nilgiris, Indian subcontinent (North) (Swinhoe 1885, Hampson 1896a, Whalley 1963), Kerala, Uttarakhand, Bhubaneshwar (Singh et al. 2022) Sikkim, Mizoram, Jharkhand (present study)), Formosa, Ceylon [Sri Lanka], Thayetmyo, Burma [Myanmar], E. Pegu, Borneo, Java, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Tonga (Hampson 1896a, Swinhoe 1885, Whalley 1963, Wang & Li 2005, Sutton et al. 2015).

Taxonomic note: The E. mesenterialis belongs to E. mesenterialis species-group (sensu Whalley 1963). The group is mainly characterised by the enlarged basal segment of antennae, bearing a small process and in male genitalia, the apex of the uncus is almost flat, laterally folded and the saccular process is short (shortest among all the congeners, except in E. borneoensis Hampson, 1916, a member of nigromaculata species-group (sensu Whalley 1963) but having saccular process as small as in species of mesenterialis species-group).

Notes

Published as part of Ranjan, Rahul, Singh, Navneet & Kirti, Jagbir Singh, 2023, On the taxonomy of genus Endotricha Zeller (Pyralinae, Pyralidae, Lepidoptera) with description of three new species from India, pp. 56-70 in Zootaxa 5323 (1) on pages 65-66, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5323.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/8203934

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/432DF02799254C5FFF790C26FBEFFD37

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.8203938 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.8203944 (DOI)
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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5323.1.3 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Event date
2013-09-29 , 2013-10-19 , 2013-10-22 , 2014-04-25 , 2014-04-28
Family
Pyralidae
Genus
Endotricha
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Walker
Species
mesenterialis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
2013-09-29 , 2013-10-19 , 2013-10-22 , 2014-04-25 , 2014-04-28
Taxonomic concept label
Endotricha mesenterialis (Walker, 1859) sec. Ranjan, Singh & Kirti, 2023

References

  • Walker, F. (1859) List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XVI - Deltoides. XVII - Pyralides. Part XVIII - Pyralides. Part XIX - Pyralides. The Trustees of the British Museum (N. H.), London, iv + 1036 pp.
  • Butler, A. G. (1886) Description of 21 new genera and 103 new species of Lepidoptera Heterocera from the Australian region. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1886 (4), 381 - 441, pls. 9 - 10. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1886. tb 01633. x
  • Snellen, P. C. T. (1895) Aanteekeningen over Pyraliden met beschrijving van nieuwe genera en soorten. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 38, 103 - 161, pls. 5 - 6.
  • Fryer, H. F. (1912) The Lepidoptera of Seychelles and Aldabra exclusive of the Orneodidae and Pterophoridae and of the Tortricina and Tineina. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 15, 1 - 28, 1 pl. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1912. tb 00086. x
  • Whalley, P. E. S. (1963) A revision of the world species of the genus Endotricha Zeller (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology Series, 13 (11), 395 - 453, pls. 1 - 37.
  • Swinhoe, C. (1885) On the Lepidoptera of Bombay and Deccan. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 124 - 148, 287 - 307 + 447 - 451. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1885. tb 07852. x
  • Hampson, G. F. (1896 a) The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Moths. Vol. 4. Taylor & Francis, London, 595 pp.
  • Singh, N., Ranjan, R., Talukdar, A., Joshi, R., Kirti, J. S., Chandra, K. & Mally, R. (2022) A catalogue of Indian Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera). Zootaxa, 5197 (1), 1 - 423. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5197.1.1
  • Wang, S. S. & Li, H. H. (2005) A taxonomic study on Endotricha Zeller (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Pyralinae) in China. Insect Science, 12, 297 - 305. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1005 - 295 X. 2005.00036. x
  • Sutton, S., Barlow, H. & Whitaker, T. (2015) A preliminary guide to pyralid moths of Borneo. Vol. 1. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu, in association with Southdene Sendirian Berhad, Kuala Lumpur, 89 pp.
  • Hampson, G. F. (1916) Descriptions of new Pyralidae of the subfamilies Epipaschiinae, Chrysauginae, Endotrichinae and Pyralinae (Lepidoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, 18 (8), 126 - 160 + 349 - 373. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931609486884