Termioptycha albifurcalis
Authors/Creators
- 1. National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, State Health Society, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, IN- 744101, India. Z sumitkumarb 3850 @ gmail. com https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1110 - 2083
- 2. Zoological Survey of India-Andaman Nicobar Regional Centre, Port Blair - 744104, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Z c _ sivaperuman 1 @ rediffmail. com https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3582 - 7767
Description
Termioptycha albifurcalis (Hampson, 1916) (Figs 3C, 6H)
Macalla albifurcalis Hampson, 1916:144–145. TL: India (Travancore, Pirmád).
Salma albifurcalis (Hampson): Solis, 1992:287.
Termioptycha albifurcalis (Hampson): Heppner & Inoue, 1992:91.
Material examined. 1♀, India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, Watch tower, 21-VIII-2019, coll. B. Sumit Kumar Rao (Reg. No. ZSI / ANRC /T-16118).
Diagnosis. Wingspan 28 mm. Termioptycha albifurcalis is similar to Termioptycha margarita (Butler, 1879) but can be separated by a rounded white patch at the middle of the termen and in female genitalia by the long uniformly narrow antrum.
Distribution. China, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, India (Kerela, Great Nicobar Islands-Present Study) (Ranjan et al., 2022; Rong et al., 2017).
Remarks. While Termioptycha albifurcalis has been documented from the states of Kerala and Maharashtra, Singh et al. (2022b) mistakenly claimed its presence in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands citing Sondhi et al. (2021). Upon reviewing Sondhi et al. (2021) findings, it was concluded that their claim of this species' presence on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands was erroneous. The present study marks the first official record of Termioptycha albifurcalis form the primary forests of Great Nicobar Island.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZSI, ANRC
- Event date
- 2019-08-21
- Verbatim event date
- 2019-08-21
- Scientific name authorship
- Hampson
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Pyralidae
- Genus
- Termioptycha
- Species
- albifurcalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Termioptycha albifurcalis (Hampson, 1916) sec. Rao & Sivaperuman, 2025
References
- Hampson, G. F. (1916) Descriptions of new Pyralidae of the subfamilies Epipaschiinae, Chrysauginae, Endotrichinae, and Pyralinae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Zoology, Botany and Geology, London (ser. 8), 18, 126-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222931608693833
- Solis, M. A. (1992) Check list of the Old World Epipaschiinae and the related New World genera Macalla and Epipascia (Pyralidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 46 (4), 280-297.
- Heppner, J. B. & Inoue, H. (1992) Lepidoptera of Taiwan: Checklist. Scientific Publishers, Gainesville. 276 p.
- Ranjan, R., Singh, N. & Kirti, J. S. (2022) On the taxonomy of genus Termioptycha Meyrick, 1889 (Pyralidae, Epipaschiinae) with description of two new species and two new species records from India. Zootaxa, 5165 (3), 415-424. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5165.3.6
- Rong, H., Wang, Y. & Li, H. (2017) Review of the genus Termioptycha Meyrick, 1889 (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae) from China, with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa, 4329 (2), 159-174. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4329.2.3
- Singh, N., Ranjan, R., Talukdar, A., Joshi, R., Kirti, J. S., Chandra, K. & Mally, R. (2022 b) A catalogue of Indian Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera). Zootaxa, 5197 (1), 1-423. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5197.1.1
- Sondhi, S., Karmakar, T., Sondhi, Y. & Kunte, K. (2021) Moths of Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India with seventeen additions to the moth fauna of India (Lepidoptera: Heterocera). Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 31 (Supplement 2), 1-53. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5062572