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Eterusia risa subsp. risa

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Zoological Survey of India, High Altitude Regional Centre, Saproon, Solan- 173211, Himachal Pradesh, India. joshiarctiidae @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8514 - 1272
  • 2. Sammlungs- und Forschungszentrum der Tiroler Landesmuseen, Ferdinandeum Krajnc-Strasse, 1 A- 6060 Hall in Tirol, Austria. g. tarmann @ tiroler-landesmuseen. at; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7360 - 5698
  • 3. Laboratory of Biotechnology and Department of Biological Chemistry, V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, RU- 295051 Simferopol, Crimea. shysh 1981 @ mail. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1468 - 7264
  • 4. Department of Entomology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka- 560065, India. reddy 90366. mu @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6105 - 5708
  • 5. State Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China and Engineering Research Center of Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China. shahababfarooqui @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7289 - 5331 * Corresponding author: spathour @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8177 - 6091
  • 6. National Pusa Collection, Division of Entomology, ICAR- Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012, India. santhoshckm 55 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7299 - 8066

Description

45. Eterusia risa risa (Doubleday, 1844)

Heterusia risa risa Doubleday, 1844: 468

TL: Nepal; BMNH.

Distribution: India: N. India; Global: Nepal (Bryk 1936; Endo & Kishida 1999).

Host: Found to feed on Camellia sinensis (Theaceae) in India and Indonesia; Symplocos sp. (Symplocaceae) in India (Robinson et al. 2010) and on Melastoma malabathricum (Melastomataceae) (Leong 2009; Holloway 2011).

Illustrations: Adults ♂ and ♀ (Endo & Kishida 1999: 58, figs. 1–8).

Remarks: Other subspecies: E. risa javanica (Hering, 1922) (TL: Indonesia, Java, Mount Gede), E. risa transitaria (Hering, 1922) (TL: Sumatra), and E. risa palawanica Yen, 2005 (TL: Philippines, Palawan, Brooke’s point).

Notes

Published as part of Joshi, Rahul, Tarmann, Gerhard M., Efetov, Konstantin A., Reddy, Karthik M., Farooqui, Shahabab Ahmad & Naik, Santhosh, 2026, A catalogue of Zygaenidae (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea) from India, pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5812 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5812.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/21179279

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Doubleday
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Zygaenidae
Genus
Eterusia
Species
risa
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Taxonomic concept label
Eterusia risa subsp. risa (Doubleday, 1844) sec. Joshi, Tarmann, Efetov, Reddy, Farooqui & Naik, 2026

References

  • Doubleday, E. (1844) Notes on lepidopterous insects. Zoologist, 2, 468-471.
  • Bryk, F. (1936) Zygaenidae II. In: Strand, E. (Ed.), Lepidopterorum catalogus. Vol. 4. Part 71. Dr. W. Junk Verlag fur Naturwissenschaften, Berlin, pp. 93-332.
  • Kishida, Y. & Endo, T. (1999) Descriptions of new species and new subspecies of the Chalcosiinae (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae) from South East Asia, with some notes on new synonyms. Tinea, 16 (1), 41-49.
  • Robinson, G. S., Ackery, P. R., Kitching, I. J., Beccaloni, G. W. & Hernandez, L. M. (2010) HOSTS-a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London. Available from: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosts (accessed 25 May 2025)
  • Holloway, J. D. (2011) The moths of Borneo: families Phaudidae, Himantopteridae and Zygaenidae; revised and annotated checklist. Malayan Nature Journal, 63 (1), 1-601.
  • Hering, M. (1922) Revision der orientalischen Chalcosiinen. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, Berlin, 88 A (11), 1-93.
  • Yen, S. H., Robinson, G. S. & Quicke, D. L. (2005) The phylogenetic relationships of Chalcosiinae (Lepidoptera, Zygaenoidea, Zygaenidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 143 (2), 161-341. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00139.x