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Nikara castanea Moore 1882
Authors/Creators
- 1. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata 700053, West Bengal, India & joshiarctiidae @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8514 - 1272
- 2. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata 700053, West Bengal, India & adroitangshuman @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6992 - 7056
- 3. Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun- 248001, Uttarakhand, India & uttaran 25 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8038 - 2517
- 4. Wildlife Trust of India, Noida, Delhi NCR, Uttar Pradesh, India & kamalika 589 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9518 - 3449
- 5. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata 700053, West Bengal, India & nsgill 007 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6657 - 7983 * Corresponding author
Description
1. Nikara castanea Moore, 1882: 126
TL: Darjiling [Darjeeling] (West Bengal, India)
Distribution. India: Sikkim, West Bengal (Moore 1882, Hampson 1910). Global: China, Thailand, Vietnam (Hreblay 2022, Saldaitis et al. 2022).
Notes
Published as part of Joshi, Rahul, Raha, Angshuman, Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran, Bhattacharyya, Kamalika & Singh, Navneet, 2025, A catalogue of Noctuidae Latreille, 1809 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from India, pp. 1-225 in Zootaxa 5669 (1) on page 187, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5669.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/16983535
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5669.1.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/16983535 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB3476E1028FFADFF990936FFFAFFD3 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/0FF371C7-4A0B-44BF-B673-9ED3B1560F9B (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/038A3F161092FF17FF0E0F4CFDCDF8D2 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Moore
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Genus
- Nikara
- Species
- castanea
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nikara castanea Moore, 1882 sec. Joshi, Raha, Bandyopadhyay, Bhattacharyya & Singh, 2025
References
- Hreblay, M. (2022) Beitrag zur Noctuidenfauna von Nord-Thailand (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Annales Musei Historico-Naturalis Hungarici, 114, 25-128. https://doi.org/10.53019/AnnlsMusHistNatHung.2022.114.25
- Saldaitis, A., Volynkin, A. V., Speidel, W. & Zahiri, R. (2022) A review of the genus Nikara Moore and its transfer to the Stiriinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Zootaxa, 5205 (3), 201-219. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5205.3.1