Locastra muscosalis
Authors/Creators
- 1. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block New, Alipore, Kolkata 700 053, West Bengal, India. & Department of Zoology & Environmental Sciences, Punjabi University, Patiala 147 002, Punjab, India. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4983 - 0403
- 2. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block New, Alipore, Kolkata 700 053, West Bengal, India. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6657 - 7983
- 3. Department of Zoology & Environmental Sciences, Punjabi University, Patiala 147 002, Punjab, India. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9670 - 5931
Description
Locastra muscosalis (Walker, 1866): 1268
(Figs 1, 7)
Type locality: North China
= Locastra cristalis Hampson, 1893: 42
Type locality: Wattegama, Ceylon [Sri Lanka]
= Taurica sikkima Moore, 1888: 202
Type locality: Darjeeling [India]
Diagnosis: Locastra muscosalis (Fig. 1) and L. viridis (Fig. 2) are two very similar species, but the former is distinct from L. viridis in the antemedial dark line bent only on vein R 3 and a parallel white line running along with, whereas in L. viridis, the antemedial line is bent on vein R 3 and also on M 3, and the white parallel line is absent. Furthermore, L. muscosalis and L. viridis are distinct in the male genitalia: in L. muscosalis (Fig. 7), the uncus is inverted subtrapezoidal, and the juxta is of a concave U-shape at the posterior margin, whereas in L. viridis (Fig. 8) the uncus is sub-rectangular, and the juxta is concave V-shaped on the posterior margin.
Material examined: India, Mizoram, Mamit, 1 ♂, 07.ix.2016, 2 ♂, 08.ix.2016, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 09.ix.2016, Kawarthah, 2 ♀, 10.ix.2016, Kolasib, 2 ♂, 16.ix.2016, Vairengte, 1 ♂, 18.ix.2016; Meghalaya, Umtasor, 6 ♂, 15.ix.2014, 6 ♂, 16.ix.2014, R. Ranjan leg. (NZCZSI)
Distribution: Indian records: Sikhim [Sikkim], Nagas [Nagaland], N[orth] E[ast] India (Hampson 1896a, b), Darjeeling (Sevastopulo 1948), Andaman Islands (South Andaman) (Chandra & Rajan 2004), India (Rong & Li 2017), Sikkim, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, Andaman and Nicobar Island (Chandra et al. 2019), Meghalaya (present study).
Global records: N[orth] China, Ceylon [Sri Lanka], Rangoon, Burma [Myanmar] (Hampson 1896a, b), Nepal (Yamanaka 1998), Korea (Bae et al. 2008), China, Japan, Sri Lanka (Rong & Li 2017), Malaysia, Indonesia (Chandra et al. 2019).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- R
- Event date
- 2014-09-15 , 2016-09-07
- Verbatim event date
- 2014-09-15/16 , 2016-09-07/18
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Pyralidae
- Genus
- Locastra
- Species
- muscosalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Locastra muscosalis (Walker, 1866) sec. Ranjan, Singh & Kirti, 2022
References
- Walker, F. (1866) Supplement 4. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, London, 34, 1121 - 1533.
- Hampson, G. F. (1893) The Macrolepidoptera Heterocera of Ceylon. Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum. Printed by order of the trustees, London, i - vi, 1 - 182., pls. 157 - 176.
- Moore, F. (1888) Descriptions of Indian Lepidoptera Heterocera from the collection of the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson. In: Hewitson, W. C. & Moore, F. (Eds.), Descriptions of new Indian lepidopterous Insects from the collection of the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson 3. Asiatic Society of Bengal / Taylor & Francis, Calcutta / London, pp. 199 - 299., pls. 6 - 8.
- Hampson, G. F. (1896 a) The fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, Moths, 4. Taylor and Francis Ltd., London, 594 pp.
- Sevastopulo, D. G. (1948) Early stages of Indian Lepidoptera, part 20. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 47, 458 - 469.
- Chandra, K. & Rajan, P. T. (2004) Faunal Diversity of Mount Harriet National Park (South Andaman), Conservation Area Series 17. Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 142 pp.
- Rong, H. & Li, H. (2017) Review of the genus Locastra Walker, 1859 from China, with descriptions of four new species (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Epipaschiinae). ZooKeys, 724, 101 - 118. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 724.13262
- Chandra, K., Kumar, V., Singh, N., Raha, A. & Sanyal, A. K. (2019) Assemblages of Lepidoptera in Indian Himalaya through long term Monitoring plots. Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 457 pp.
- Yamanaka, H. (1998) Pyralidae of Nepal (II). Tinea, Tokyo 15, supplemental, 1, 99 - 116.
- Bae, Y. S., Byun, B. K. & Paek, M. K. (2008) Pyralid moths of Korea (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea). Korea National Arboretum, Pocheon, 426 pp.