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MothS of Thailand Vol. Three N O C T u o i d e a An illustrated Catalogue of Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae and Noctuidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) in Thailand
... Indian records: Uttarakhand. Global records: Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Malaysia Borneo (Sarawak), Indonesia (Sumatra, Java) (Kononenko & Pinratana 2013. ...
... Remarks. This species is very similar to t. infida (Walker [1858], 1857) (treated as synonym of t. palliatrix by Kononenko & Pinratana 2013). The type locality of t. infida, was mentioned as Hindostan (Guenée 1852)) and this could be the reason of reporting of t. palliatrix from India. ...
... Indian records: Tamil Nadu, Kerala. Global records: China, Myanmar, Malay Peninsula, Malaysia, Cameron Highland, Singapore, Borneo, Indonesia, New Guinea, the Philippines, Thailand (Holloway 1985, Kononenko & Pinratana 2013, Sondhi et al. 2018 (Hampson 1912, Holloway 1985, Qi et al. 2011 (Holloway 1985, Qi et al. 2011 ...
We present a catalogue of 104 valid species in 20 genera and two subfamilies i.e., Euteliinae and Stictopterinae of Indian Euteliidae, which represent 19.25% of the global Euteliidae (540 species). Out of 104 Indian species, Euteliinae are represented by 52 species in 14 genera and Stictopterinae by 52 species in six genera. Six new combinations are proposed and one old combination is revived. Taxonomic position of Mimanuga Warren, 1913 is discussed. For the included genera, type species and synonyms, if any, are given whereas for the catalogued species, type localities, synonyms, if any, distribution including Indian as well as global records are provided.
... The world Lepidopterum catalogus of Noctuidae by Poole (1989) is still the major reference for Nolidae species. A huge gap in taxonomic studies occurs for this family regarding the Indian fauna although some of the major works from surrounding countries/regions by Kobes (1987;Sumatra), Nepal), Holloway ( , 2008Holloway ( , 2009Borneo), Kononenko & Pinratana (2013;Thailand), László et al. (2004László et al. ( , 2005László et al. ( , 2006László et al. ( , 2007László et al. ( , 2008László et al. ( , 2010László et al. ( , 2013aLászló et al. ( , 2013bLászló et al. ( , 2013cLászló et al. ( , 2014aLászló et al. ( , 2014bLászló et al. ( , 2014cLászló et al. ( , 2014dLászló et al. ( , 2014e, 2015aLászló et al. ( , 2015b; China, Nepal, Thailand), Hu et al. (2012Hu et al. ( , 2013aHu et al. ( , 2013bHu et al. ( , 2014aHu et al. ( , 2014bHu et al. ( , 2015China) and László & Streling (2020;Hong Kong) not only dealt with previously described many Indian species but also published numerous new taxa from Indian region. Apart from the aforementioned publications, a few but important contributions covering distribution and range extensions of some nolid species within India are Sevastopulo (1938Sevastopulo ( , 1956, Mandal & Maulik (1991), Francy & Mathew (2006), Mathew (2004), Mathew et al. (2004Mathew et al. ( , 2005Mathew et al. ( , 2007Mathew et al. ( , 2018, Sharma (2011), Shubhalaxmi et al. (2011), Gurule & Nikam (2013), Kirti et al. (2014), Sanyal et al. (2018), Sondhi et al. (2018), and Singh (2019). ...
... TD: NHMUK (Poole 1989). OUMNH (Kononenko & Pinratana 2013). ...
... Zahiri et al. (2013) recognized six well supported tribes: Ariolicini, Careini, Chloephorini, Eariadini, Gelastocerini and Sarrothripini. Kononenko & Pinratana (2013) also included Camptolomini in Chloephorinae. Reporting of Pseudoips fagana Fabricius by Sanyal et al. (2018), tathothripa arcuosa Bethune-Baker by Das et al. (2020) and erizada rufa Hampson by Joshi et al. (2021) from India needs further investigation. ...
The present catalogue is the first résumé of the family Nolidae Bruand, 1846 recorded in India comprising 354 species under 98 genera of 6 subfamilies, including four new records to India: Casminola seminigra (Hampson, 1896), Evonima ronkaygabori Han & Hu, 2019, Meganola suffusata (Wileman & West, 1929) and Nola euryzonata (Hampson, 1900). The Indian Nolidae represents 16.2 % of the global species (2,179 species) of Nolidae. The information on the type locality, type depository, sex of the type (wherever available), first reference, synonymy, host plants (wherever available) and distribution within as well as outside India for each of the included species is provided. Some clarifications regarding type locality, type depository along with new distributional records within Indian states are also given with 72 images of adults.
... The notable difference with nigroplumbea can be observed in the scobinated patch of vesica being present in opposite direction (Holloway 1989 Kirti et al. 2014). global: Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java), Japan, Korea (Cotes & Swinhoe 1888;Leech 1900;Dudgeon 1905;Hampson 1908;Roepke 1948;Lin 1993;Kononenko & Pinratana 2013). ...
... Distribution: India: Uttarakhand, Sikkim, West Bengal, Nagaland (Moore 1867;Hampson 1908). global: Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand, Vietnam (Dudgeon 1905;Yoshimoto 1994;Kononenko & Pinratana, 2013;Gyulai et al. 2015). ...
... Male genitalia: Uncus moderately long, hook-shaped; juxta broad, apically narrow, moderately sclerotised with a small triangular sclerotised projection at the middle; valva long, spindle-shaped with one distally curved harpe, cucullus with prominent corona; aedeagus vesica with scattered patches of small cornuti.Distribution: India: Uttarakhand, Sikkim, West Bengal (Moore 1881). global: Nepal, Thailand(Yoshimoto 1992;Kononenko & Pinratana 2013).Bionomics: Distributed from Western to Central Himalaya, preferably within altitudinal zone of 1900-2700 m, in Wet Temperate and Mixed Coniferous forests with an annual mean temperature range of 12-16 ºC and average annual precipitation of 1700-2700 mm. Individuals were recorded in both pre-monsoon and post-monsoon months.Phlogophora szecsenyiiHreblay & Ronkay, 1998, esperiana, 6: 148. ...
The Genus Phlogophora Treitschke, 1825 (Noctuidae: Xyleninae), widely distributed in Palaearctic and Oriental realms, is especially diverse within Indian Himalaya with 12 known species till now. Current communication reports three species new to India viz. P. meticulodina (Draudt, 1950), P. nobilis Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998 and P. szecsenyii Hreblay &
Ronkay, 1998 and a new species P. similis Bandyopadhyay, Mallick, Sanyal & Chandra sp. nov., thus bringing the species number to 16 for the country, along with taxonomic key with morphology and genitalia-based diagnosis for all the Indian/Himalayan species. Out of those species, partial mitochondrial Cytochrome C Oxidase I (COI) sequences were generated for 6 species, of which 5 were novel to the NCBI GenBank. The genus had maximum species richness and abundance in Eastern Himalayan Temperate Forest spanning 1800–2500 m in Central Himalayan landscape of Darjeeling-Sikkim and
Nepal. Current Habitat suitability model of six Phlogophora species indicated that temperature dependent variables like Temperature Annual Range, Temperature Seasonality and Elevation are the most contributing factors for their predicted distribution range. The genus comprising of both Polycyclic and Monocyclic species became most abundant during Postmonsoon, in cold (9–11 ºC) and humid (87–91%) nights, in areas with Annual Mean Temperature ranging within 4.6–19.9 ºC and Annual Precipitation of 1000–2800 mm.
... Some of the moths were also recorded and photographed during daylight hours. The moth photographs were identified based on physical features with the help of available literatures including Hampson (1892Hampson ( -1896, Bell and Scott (1937), Holloway (1987Holloway ( , 1999Holloway ( , 2005, Schintlmeister and Pinratana (2007), Kononenko and Pinratana (2013) and Kirti and Singh (2015). The classification system used in the present study was adapted from the work of van Nieukerken et al. (2011). ...
ABSTRACT
A study was conducted at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) campus of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India to assess the moth fauna of the area. A preliminary checklist was compiled as a base-line contribution to the status of the Lepidoptera diversity of the campus. The campus was surveyed from January to December 2019 and moths were recorded through 83-night surveys and a large number of opportunistic visits in 18 different sites of the campus. The study has recorded a total of 1248 individual moths belonging to 99 morphospecies, 84 genera, and 11 families across different parts of the study area. The most species rich family was Erebidae with 35 species under 30 genera followed by Crambidae (33 species; 28 genera), Geometridae (15 species; 11 genera), Noctuidae (seven species; six genera), and others. However, family-wise abundance data indicated that Crambidae (38.70%) was the most abundant family having highest proportion of moths recorded followed by Erebidae (34.85%), Geometridae (10.73%), Noctuidae (6.81%) and others. This illustrated checklist and the results will improve our understanding of Varanasi’s biodiversity and can be used for improvement of the campus planning and developing strategies for conservation of moth diversity.
An African species, Bastilla angularis (Boisduval) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) is reported from two states of India, Bihar and Jharkhand. This species is reported for the first time from Oriental region. Photographs of adults and male genitalia are also provided.
In this study, the complete mitochondrial genomes of five noctuoid moth species, namely, Paectes cristatrix, Hemichloridia euprepia, Trigonodes hyppasia, Mythimna unipuncta, and Risoba obstructa, were newly sequenced and characterized. Based on our investigations, the five mitogenomes showed sizes of 15409, 15619, 15654, 15403, and 15233 bp, respectively, and encoded 37 genes (13 protein-coding, 2 ribosomal RNA, and 22 transfer RNA genes) and a control region. All protein-coding genes (PCGs) in these mitogenomes had typical ATN start codons except for cox1 and nad1. The non-canonical codon CGA was the starter in H. euprepia and M. unipuncta and TTG was the starter in T. hyppasia for cox1. The unusual codon GTG was the starter in R. obstructa for nad1. All tRNA genes showed distinctive putative cloverleaf structures except trnS1 (AGN), which lacked the dihydrouridine (DHU) stem. Bayesian inference (BI) and maximum likelihood (ML) analyses were employed based on 13 PCGs using 159 taxa among the five families of the superfamily Noctuoidea, and the results showed the monophyly of this superfamily with well-supported values. Phylogenetic analyses showed that the newly sequenced endemic species Hemichloridia euprepia clustered separately along with the subfamilies Cuculliinae and Acronictinae with fairly supported values.
We performed a molecular phylogenetic analysis on the family Euteliidae to clarify deep divergences and elucidate evolutionary relationships at the level of the subfamily, tribe, and genus. Our dataset consists of 6.3 kbp of one mitochondrial and seven nuclear DNA loci and was analysed using model-based phylogenetic methods, that is, maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference. Based on the recovered topology, we recognize two sub-families, Euteliinae and Stictopterinae, and the tribes Stictopterini and Odontini. We identify apomorphic morphological character states for Euteliidae and its component subfamilies and tribes. Several genera (e.g., Targalla, Paectes, Marathyssa, Eutelia) were found polyphyletic and require taxonomic revision. Two new genera (Niklastelia Zahiri & Holloway gen.nov. and Pellinentelia Holloway & Zahiri gen.nov.) are described and a number of taxonomic changes (new combinations and new synonymies) are established. The Neotropical genus Thyriodes, currently included in Euteliidae, is found to be associated with Erebinae (Erebidae). The divergence time estimate for the split between the Euteliidae and Noctuidae is at 53 Ma, and the Euteliidae subfamilies Euteliinae and Stic-topterinae are estimated to have diverged at 42 Ma. In Stictopterinae, the tribes Stictop-terini and Odontodini split at 31 Ma, while Euteliinae began diversifying at 34 Ma. Malpighiales are inferred to have been the ancestral larval hostplant order for Euteliidae. The ancestors of Stictopterinae also appear to have been Malpighiales feeders, but then diverged to Malvales specialists (Odontodini) and Malpighiales specialists (Stictopterini) hostplants. Larvae of Stictopterini appear to be restricted primarily to Clusiaceae, apart from a few records from Dipterocarpaceae. In Euteliinae, Anacardiaceae are predominant as larval hosts. Thus, all hosts in the family are lactiferous, possibly providing some degree of pre-adaptation for exploiting Dipterocarpaceae. K E Y W O R D S
Moths are non-papilionoid Lepidoptera and least studied than butterflies, likely due to mostly being nocturnal habit and cryptic colouration. A preliminary checklist of moth fauna from various southern Rajasthan is presented in the present study based on records from 1 January 2018 to 31 March 2020. We identified 154 moth species representing 10 super families, 18 families and 58 subfamilies. The most species rich families were Crambidae (n=46; 29.87%) Noctuidae (n=30; 19.48%) and Erebidae (n=29; 18.83%), and Geometridae (n=19; 12.34%). The significant outcome of this work is the report of 126 species for the first time from the state of Rajasthan.
An updated checklist of 91 species under 21 genera of the subfamily Nolinae has been compiled. The detailed information
about distribution within India as well as in other countries, first reference, latest reference, type locality, type depository,
synonymy has been provided for each species. Clarifications regarding type locality, type material and distributional limits
within India are also given.
Genus Eudocima Billberg is represented by 11 species from India. Four species viz., Eudocima homaena (Hübner), Eudocima hypermnestra (Stoll), Eudocima materna (Linnaeus) and Eudocima phalonia (Linneaus) are collected and studied for the first time from Bihar and Jharkhand. External genitalia of all the studied species has been illustrated and studied. A checklist of Indian species of Eudocima is provided.
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