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Massepha absolutalis Walker 1859
Authors/Creators
- 1. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata 700053, West Bengal, India
- 2. Department of Zoology & Environmental Sciences, Punjabi University, Patiala, 147002, Punjab, India
- 3. Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Department of Forest Protection and Entomology, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Praha 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic
Description
824. Massepha absolutalis Walker, 1859a: 489
Type locality: Ceylon [Sri Lanka]
= Physematia pollutalis Snellen, 1880a: 240
Type locality: Celebes [Sulawesi], Maros, Java, Ambarawa
= Massepha marginalis Swinhoe, 1906a: 287
Type locality: Khasia [Khasi] Hills
Distribution. Indian records: Punjab, Calcutta (Hampson 1896b), Khasia Hills (Swinhoe 1906a), Indien (Klima 1937), North India (Rose & Dhillon 1980c), West Bengal (Calcutta), Punjab (Bhattacharya 1997), West Himalaya (Sanyal et al. 2018), Andaman Islands (Rao & Sivaperuman 2020). Global records: Bhutan, Ceylon, Java (Hampson 1896b) Tonkin, Ostchina (Kwangtung) Formosa, Ceylon, Java, Celebes (Klima 1937).
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 304, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5197.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7252292
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- Animalia
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- Arthropoda
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- Lepidoptera
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- Crambidae
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- Massepha
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- Massepha absolutalis Walker, 1859 sec. Singh, Ranjan, Talukdar, Joshi, Kirti, Chandra & Mally, 2022
References
- Walker, F. (1859 a) 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 (Natural History), London, iv + 1036 pp.
- Snellen, P. C. T. (1880 a) Nieuwe Pyraliden op het Eiland Celebes gevonden door Mr. M. C. Piepers. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 23, 198 - 250.
- Swinhoe, C. (1906 a) New and little-known species of Heterocera from the East. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, Series 7, 17, 283 - 297 + 379 - 383. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222930608562541
- Hampson, G. F. (1896 b) The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Moths. Vol. 4. Taylor & Francis, London, 595 pp.
- Klima, A. (1937) Pyralididae, Subfam., Scopariinae et Nymphulinae. In: Bryk, F. (Ed.), Lepidopterorum Catalogus. 84. Dr. W. Junk's-Gravenhage, pp. 1 - 226. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 124187
- Rose, H. S. & Dhillon, S. S. (1980 c) Historical account of India Pyralidae (Lepidoptera) and future scope of work on this family. The Indian Zoologist, 4 (1 - 2), 137 - 151.
- Bhattacharya, D. P. (1997) Insecta, Pyralidae. In: Director ZSI, Kolkata (Ed.), State Fauna Series 3. Fauna of West Bengal. Part 7. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 319 - 408.
- Sanyal, A. K., Mallick, K., Khan, S., Bandyopadhyay, U., Mazumder, A., Bhattacharyya, K., Pathania, P. C., Raha, A. & Chandra, K. (2018) Insecta: Lepidoptera (Moths). In: Chandra, K., Gupta, D., Gopi, K. C., Tripathy, B. & Kumar, V. (Eds.), Faunal Diversity of Indian Himalaya. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 651 - 726.
- Rao, B. S. K. & Sivaperuman, C. (2020) Annotated checklist of Pyraloid moths (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea) of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Journal of the Andaman Science Association, 25 (1), 15 - 26.