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Katha conformis Walker

Description

Katha conformis (Walker)

Lithosia conformis Walker, 1854, List Sp. lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 2: 509.

Lithosia nigrifrons Moore, 1878, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond.1878: 17.

Eilema chekiangica Daniel, 1954; Kishida, 2011, Moths of Guangdong Nanling National Nature Reserve: 219.

TL: Sikkim (India)

Distribution: India (Walker 1854); Thailand (Cerny & Pinratana 2009); China: Shanxi, Shanxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei, Yunnan (Fang 2000); Guangdong (Dubatolov et al. 2012).

Notes

Published as part of Joshi, Rahul, Singh, Navneet & Singh, Jagbir, 2018, Description of a new Katha species from India, with a key to the Oriental species (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 435-442 in Zootaxa 4407 (3) on page 438, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4407.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/1216526

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Walker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Katha
Species
conformis
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Walker, F. (1854) List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part 2. Printed by order of the Trustees, London, 302 pp.
  • Moore, F. (1878) A revision of certain genera of European and Asiatic Lithosiidae, with characters of new genera and species. Proceedings of the general meetings for scientific business of the Zoological Society of London, 1878, 3 - 36. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1878. tb 07927. x
  • Daniel, F. (1954) Beitrage ZurKenntnis der Arctiidae Ostasiens under besonderer Beriicksichtingung der Ausbeuten. H. Hones ausdiesens Gebiets Lep. Het., Part 1, Callimorphinae and Nyctemerinae. Mitteilungen der Munchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 5 (1 - 2), 89 - 270.
  • Cerny, K. & Pinratana, A. (2009) Moths of Thailand. Vol. 6. Arctiidae. Brothers of Saint Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok, 283 pp.
  • Fang, C. (2000) Fauna Sinica Insecta. Vol. 19. Lepidoptera: Arctiidae. Science Press, Beijing, 589 pp.
  • Dubatolov, V. V., Kishida, Y. & Wang, M. (2012) New record of lichen-moths from the Nanling Mts., Guangdong, South China, with descriptions of new genera and species (Lepidopetra, Arctiidae: Lithosiinae). Tinea, 22 (1), 25 - 52.