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Melittia newara Moore 1879
Authors/Creators
- 1. Lepidoptera Section, Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, West Bengal, India & jalilahmad 23046 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7719 - 864 X
- 2. Lepidoptera Section, Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, West Bengal, India & joshiarctiidae @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8514 - 1272
- 3. Lepidoptera Section, Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, West Bengal, India & nsgill 007 @ gmail. com https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6657 - 7983
Description
56. Melittia newara Moore, 1879b: 10
= Melittia nevara Hampson, 1919: 90 (emend. Melittia newara Moore, 1879).
Type locality: Darjeeling [India].
Distribution in India: Sikkim, Meghalaya (Khasis), West Bengal (Darjeeling). Global records: Vietnam (Hampson 1919, Gurbonov & Arita 1996).
Notes
Published as part of Ahmad, Jalil, Joshi, Rahul & Singh, Navneet, 2023, An updated Catalogue of Cossoidea (Lepidoptera) from India, pp. 301-348 in Zootaxa 5330 (3) on page 331, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8254738
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Moore
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sesiidae
- Genus
- Melittia
- Species
- newara
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melittia newara Moore, 1879 sec. Ahmad, Joshi & Singh, 2023
References
- Moore, F. (1879 b) Descriptions of new Indian Lepidopterous Insects from the collection of the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson. Heterocera (Sphingidae - Hepialidae). Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, 1, 1 - 88.
- 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
- Arita, Y. & Gurvonov, O. G. (1996) New and unrecorded clearwing moths of the genus Melittia Huebner, [1819] (Lepidoptera. Sesiidae) from Thailand. Transaction of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan, 47 (3), 157 - 173.