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Cotachena histricalis Botys

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662. Cotachena histricalis (Walker, 1859a: 655) (Botys)

Type locality: Ceylon [Sri Lanka]. China, Shanghai

= Cotochena [sic] trinotata Butler, 1887: 122

Type locality: [Solomon Islands, Shortland Island] Alu

= Cotachena peractalis Warren, 1896b: 465

Type locality: [Indonesia, Maluku, Tenimber] Tanimbar Islands. East Timor, Dili

= Cotachena histricalis orientalis L. W. Rothschild, 1915a: 117

Type locality: Indonesia, Papua, Snow Mountains [Maoke Mountains], Base Camp

= Cotachena peractilis (misspell.) (Whalley 1961a: 99)

Distribution. Indian records: India (Hampson 1896a), Dharmsala (Himachal Pradesh), Sikkim, Andaman, Nilgiri (Tamil Nadu), Naga Hills (Nagaland) (Gupta 1994), Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh (Chandra et al. 2019). Global records: Alu [Solomon Islands, Shortland Island] (Butler 1887), China, Ceylon (Hampson 1896a), Tenimber, East Timor, Dili (Warren 1896b), Myanmar, Hong Kong, New Guinea, Australia, Africa (Chandra et al. 2019), Indonesia (Pathania et al. 2021b).

Notes

Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ranjan, Rahul, Talukdar, Avishek, Joshi, Rahul, Kirti, Jagbir Singh, Chandra, Kailash & Mally, Richard, 2022, A catalogue of Indian Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera), pp. 1-423 in Zootaxa 5197 (1) on page 268, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5197.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7252292

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References

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