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Endoclita rustica Tindale 1941

  • 1. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata 700053, West Bengal, India & dapurva 69 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2859 - 5010
  • 2. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata 700053, West Bengal, India

Description

18. Endoclita rustica Tindale, 1941: 33

Type locality: Assam: Shillong, Khasia Hills [India, Meghalaya, Shillong, Khasi Hills].

Distribution: Indian records: Meghalaya (Grehan & Ismavel 2017). Global records: not known.

Note: Grehan et al. (2022) mentioned Assam as its distribution. However, Khasia Hills was part of Assam before 21 st January, 1972, and after that is part of Meghalaya. So, the distribution has been corrected accordingly.

Notes

Published as part of Das, Apurva & Singh, Navneet, 2022, An annotated catalogue of nonditrysian Lepidoptera of India, pp. 251-270 in Zootaxa 5154 (3) on page 257, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5154.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6644632

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Tindale
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Hepialidae
Genus
Endoclita
Species
rustica
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Endoclita rustica Tindale, 1941 sec. Das & Singh, 2022

References

  • Tindale, N. B. (1941) Revision of the ghost moths (Lepidoptera Homoneura, family Hepialidae). Part IV. Records of the South Australian Museum, 7, 15 - 46.
  • Grehan, J. R. & Ismavel, V. A. (2017) Forest ghost moth fauna of northeastern India (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae: Endoclita, Palpifer, and Hepialiscus). Journal of Threatened Taxa, 9 (3), 9940 - 9955. https: // doi. org / 10.11609 / jott. 3030.9.3.9940 - 9955
  • Grehan, J. R., Mielke, C. G. C., Basu, D. N., Pawar, U., Ismavel, V. A., Rawlins, J. E. & Kunte, K. (2022) A new species of Endoclita C. & R. Felder, 1874 ghost moth from Karimganj district of Assam, India, with comments on the genus in Northeastern India, and clarification of E. signifer (Walker, 1856) (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae). ZooNova, 16, 1 - 13.