Table 1. List of tiger moth species recorded from Flores Island, Lesser Sunda Archipelago (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Arctiini)
Genus Species Distribution* Reference to the records from Flores
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Euchromia E. horsfieldi (Moore, 1859) Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Bali, Present study
Hübner, [1819] Lesser Sundas, and Christmas
Island
Amerila Walker, A. astreus (Drury, 1773) ** India and Sri-Lanka over Nepal, Present study
1855 continental China, Taiwan, the (recorded from Flores
Philippines to Indo-China, and Kanawa Islands)
Indonesia and New Guinea
Utetheisa Hübner, U. palla (Röber, 1891) Lesser Sundas: Sumbawa, Flores, De Vos (2007);
[1819] Lembata (former Lomblen), Dubatolov (2010,
Adonara, Pura and Alor 2012)
U. pulchelloides Hampson, 1907 China, Japan, islands of the Indian Present study
Ocean, Pakistan, India, Sri-Lanka, (recorded from
Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Kanawa Island)
Philippines, Australia, Vanuatu,
New Caledonia, Norfolk, and New
Zealand
Nyctemera N. scalarium regalis Roepke, 1954 Flores Roepke (1954);
Hübner, [1820] Dubatolov (2010,
2012); De Vos (2015)
N. baulus Boisduval, 1832 Sundaland to North Australia and Roepke (1954);
Samoa present study
N. coleta (Stoll, 1781) Japan, Oriental Region to New Roepke (1954)
Guinea
Nyctemera distincta Walker, 1854 Java and Flores Present study: in
collections of BMNH
and RMNH (De Vos,
pers. comm.)
N. maculata variamacula De Vos, Bali, Lombok, and Flores De Vos (2002)
2002
N. pagenstecheri Pagenstecher, Pulau Laut (South Borneo), Holloway (1988);
1898 Lombok, Sumbawa, and Flores Dubatolov (2010,
2012)
N. simulatrix Walker, [1865] Sulawesi and Lesser Sundas Roepke (1954);
Dubatolov (2010,
2012)
N. tripunctaria lombokiana Lombok, Sumba, Sumbawa, Roepke (1954);
(Swinhoe, 1903) Flores, and Alor Dubatolov (2010,
2012)
Aloa Walker, A. cardinalis danau ssp. nov. West Flores Present study
1855 A. c. luteomarginata (Rothschild, East edge of Flores (Larantuka), Rothschild (1910);
1910) Timor, and Maluku Dubatolov (2004)
A. lactinea (Cramer, [1777]) India and Japan over continental Rothschild (1910);
China, Taiwan and the Philippines Dubatolov (2010,
to Sundaland and Lesser Sundas 2012)