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Meganoton nyctiphanes

Description

3. Meganoton nyctiphanes (Walker, 1856)

1856. Macrosila nyctiphanes Walker; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln. Br. Mus. 8: 209.

Distribution in India: Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Assam, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, East Himalaya, Jharkhand, Southern Peninsula (Chandra et al., 2014, Singh, 2019).

Notes

Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil & Chandra, Kailash, 2021, An updated checklist of Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) from Great Nicobar Island with a new species record from India, pp. 375-381 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (3) on page 376, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v121/i3/2021/157648, http://zenodo.org/record/13186213

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Walker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Sphingidae
Genus
Meganoton
Species
nyctiphanes
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Meganoton nyctiphanes (Walker, 1856) sec. Singh, Ahmad & Chandra, 2021

References

  • Chandra, K., Kumar, J., Sambath, S. and Mitra, B. 2014. A catalogue of the hawk-moths of India (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Bionotes, 16 (2): 37 - 47.
  • Singh, N. 2019. Moths of Bihar and Jharkhand. Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occ. Paper, 400: 1 - 198.