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Tyrictaca postcristata

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Tyrictaca postcristata (Hampson 1892)

Ceratocorema postcristatum, n. sp. ” — Hampson 1892: 200, fig 128. Type locality: “Berhampore, Ganjam (Minchin); Poona.”

[= India: West Bengal, Berhampore; Maharashtra, Pune]. Syntypes 2 ♂♂ (BMNH).

Literature. Hampson 1919: 115 (Tinthia postcristata); Dalla Torre & Strand 1925: 183 (Tinthia postcristatum); Gaede 1933: 798 (Tinthia postcristata); Heppner & Duckworth 1981: 21 (Tinthia postcristata); Pühringer & Kallies 2004: 7 (Ceratocorema postcristatum); Kallies 2020: 11, 12 (Tyrictaca postcristata); Arita et al. 2021: 9, 59, figs 29a–c (Ceratocorema postcristatum); Pühringer & Kallies 2021 (Tyrictaca postcristatum).

Flight period. One syntype label has the collection date “March” (Arita et al. 2021: 59, fig. 28b). There are no other data on flight period.

Host plant. Unknown.

Distribution. It is known from two localities in India.

Remarks. The female is unknown and the male genitalia have not yet been investigated.

Notes

Published as part of Gorbunov, Oleg G., 2022, A new species of the genus Tyrictaca Walker, 1862 (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) from West Malaysia with a catalogue of the genus, pp. 125-136 in Zootaxa 5104 (1) on page 132, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5104.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/6258131

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Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Scientific name authorship
Hampson
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Sesiidae
Genus
Tyrictaca
Species
postcristata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Tyrictaca postcristata (Hampson, 1892) sec. Gorbunov, 2022

References

  • Hampson, G. F. (1892) Moths. Vol. I. In: Blanford, W. T. (Ed.), The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor & Francis, London, pp. i - xxiii + 1 - 527. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 58657
  • Hampson, G. F. (1919) A classification of the Aegeriadae [sic!] of the Oriental and Ethiopian Regions. Novitates Zoologicae, 26 (1), 46 - 119. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 5633
  • Dalla Torre, K. W. & Strand, E. (1925) Aegeriidae. In: Strand, E. (Ed.), Lepidopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 31. W. Junk, Berlin, pp. 1 - 202. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 143714
  • Gaede, M. (1933) Family Aegeriidae. Seitz, A. (Hrsg.). Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde: eine systematische Bearbeitung der bis jetzt bekannten Gross-Schmetterlinge. II. Abteilung - - Exotische Fauna. Bd. 10. Die Indo-Australischen Spinner und Schwarmer. A. Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 777 - 802, taf. 94 - 95. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9400
  • Heppner, J. B. & Duckworth, W. D. (1981) Classification of the superfamily Sesioidea (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia). Smithsonian contributions to zoology, 314, i - iii + 1 - 144. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.314
  • Kallies, A. (2020) The clearwing moths (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) of Australia, New Guinea and the Pacific Islands. Zootaxa, 48 (1), 001 - 064. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4833.1.1
  • Arita, Y., Gorbunov, O. G., Kallies, A. & Yata, N. (2021) Historical type specimens of Sesiidae species kept in European museums. Tinea, 25 (Supplement 3), 3 - 211.
  • Pu ¨ hringer, F. & Kallies, A. (2021) Checklist of the Sesiidae of the world (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia). Available from: http: // www. sesiidae. net / Checklst. htm (accessed 6 September 2021)