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Palpifer murinus Hepialus

  • 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

25. Palpifer murinus (Moore, 1879: 413) (Hepialus)

Type locality: Dharmsala, N.W. Himalaya [India, Himachal Pradesh].

= Palpifer caerulescens Swinhoe, 1894: 440

Type locality: Cherra Punji.

Distribution: Indian records: Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Northwest Himalaya, Punjab. Global records: Malaysia (Grehan & Ismavel 2017).

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 258, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5154.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6644632

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Moore
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Hepialidae
Genus
Palpifer
Species
murinus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Palpifer murinus (Moore, 1879) sec. Das & Singh, 2022

References

  • Moore, F. (1879) Descriptions of new genera and species of Asiatic Lepidoptera Heterocera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1879, 387 - 417, pls. 32 - 34. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1879. tb 02671. x
  • Swinhoe, C. (1894) New species of Eastern Lepidoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 14 (84), 429 - 443. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939408677830
  • 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