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Amerila astreus
Description
1. Amerila astreus (Drury, 1773): pl. 28
= Phalaena melanthus Cramer, 1780: 166
= Rhodogastria astreas hainana Rothschild, 1910: 185
= astrea auct. Pakistan (Nargis Viqar, 2004 [2005])
Type locality: Bengal [India / Bangladesh]
Distribution: West Bengal (Chandra et al. 2019), Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Arunachal Pradesh (Arora & Chaudhury 1982), Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand (Dalma WLS) (Singh 2019), Andaman & Nicobar Islands (Chandra & Raghunathan 2018), Throughout India (Ghosh & Chaudhury 1998), Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Meghalaya, Tripura, Kerala (Sondhi et al. 2021).
Notes
Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Joshi, Rahul, Kirti, Jagbir Singh, Bisht, Santosh Singh & Param, Harsimranjeet Singh, 2021, A catalogue of Indian Arctiinae (Erebidae, Lepidoptera), pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 5058 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5058.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5602576
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Drury
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- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Arctiidae
- Genus
- Amerila
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- astreus
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- Taxonomic concept label
- Amerila astreus (Drury, 1773) sec. Singh, Joshi, Kirti, Bisht & Param, 2021
References
- Drury, D. (1773) Illustrations of Natural History. Wherein are exhibited upwards of two hundred and twenty figures of exotic insects, according to their different genera; very few of which have hitherto been figured by any author, being engraved and coloured from nature, with the greatest accuracy, and under the author's own inspection, on fifty copper-plates. With a particular description of each insect; interspersed with remarks and reflections on the nature and properties of many of them. Vol. 2. Printed for the author, London, 90 pp., pls. 1 - 50.
- Cramer, P. (1780) De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen Asia, Africa en America [Papillons Exotiques des trois parties du monde l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amerique]. Vol. III. S. J. Baalde, Amsterdam and B. Wild, Utrecht, pp. 1 - 176, pls. CXCII - CCLXXXVII. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 65748
- Rothschild, L. W. (1910) Catalogue of the Arctianae in the Tring museum, with notes and descriptions of new species. Novitates Zoologicae, 17, 1 - 85. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 13688
- Nargis Viqar, S. (2004 [2005]) Biodiversity and morpho-taxonomic studies of the family Arctiidae (Lepidoptera) from Pakistan with cladistic analysis. PhD thesis, University of Karachi, Karachi, 471 pp.
- Chandra, K., Kumar, V., Singh, N., Raha, A. & Sanyal, A. K. (2019) Assemblages of Lepidoptera in Indian Himalayan through long term monitoring plots. Published by the Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 457 pp.
- Chandra, K. & Raghunathan, C. (2018) Faunal diversity of Biogeographic Zones: Islands of India. Published by the Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 523 pp.
- Ghosh, S. K. & Chaudhury, M. (1998) Insecta: Lepidoptera: Arctiidae. In: Director (Ed.), Fauna of Meghalaya, State Fauna Series 4. Part- 6. Published by the Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 343 - 390.
- Sondhi, S., Sondhi, Y. Roy, P. and Kunte, K. (2021) Moths of India, v. 2. 61. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. Available from: https: // www. mothsofindia. org / (Assessed on 20.09.2021).