Checklist of the family Sphingidae Latreille, 1802 (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea) from Shirui Hills, Manipur, India
Author
Irungbam, Jatishwor Singh
1,2 * & Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice - 37005, Czech Republic; Email: jatishwor. irungbam @ gmail. com & 1,2 * & Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Science, Institute of Entomology, Ceske Budejovice - 37005, Czech Republic; Email: zdfric @ gmail. com
Author
Fric, Zdeněk Faltýnek
1,2 * & Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Science, Institute of Entomology, Ceske Budejovice - 37005, Czech Republic; Email: zdfric @ gmail. com
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Records of the Zoological Survey of India
2021
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1
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journal article
10.26515/rzsi/v121/i1/2021/153911
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19.
Acosmeryx naga naga
(
Moore, 1858)
- Common Forest Hawkmoth (
Figure 3
: A)
1858.
Philampelus naga
Moore
, in Horsfield and Moore,
Cat. lepid. Insects
Mus
. Hon. East-India Company,
1
: 271.
Material examined:
INDIA
,
Manipur
,
Ukhrul District
,
Shirui Hills
,
Site
1 (
25.1264ºN
94.4357ºE
),
1930 m
asl
,
23.vii.2019
-
6♂
, IJ1393, IJ1394, IJ1395, IJ1396, IJ1397, IJ1430; Site 2 (
25.1235ºN
94.4407ºE
),
2036 m
asl
,
13.ix.2019
-
2♂
, IJ1392, IJ2336; Site 3 (
25.1171ºN
94.4456ºE
),
2190 m
asl,
24.vii.2019
-
2♂
, IJ1151, 1152; Site 4 (
25.1112ºN
94.4534ºE
),
2425 m
asl,
12.vii.2016
-
2♂
, IJ336, 1J337,
25.vii.2019
-
2♂
,
1♀
, IJ1582, IJ1583, IJ584, coll. J.S. Irungbam.
Wingspan:
♂
,
104 mm
. Forewing length:
50 mm
.
Distribution:
India
:
Arunachal Pradesh
(
Athreya, 2013
);
Himachal Pradesh
, Ladakh,
Sikkim
,
Uttarakhand
(
Sanyal
et al.,
2018
);
Manipur
;
Meghalaya
(
Mandal and Ghosh, 1999
);
Uttar Pradesh
(
Smetacek, 1994
,
2008
);
West Bengal
(
Shah
et al.
, 2018
).
Elsewhere
: Northern
Pakistan
(
Rafi
et al
., 2014
);
Nepal
(
Kishida, 1998
);
Bhutan
(
Irungbam and Irungbam, 2019
); northern
Myanmar
,
Thailand
(
Inoue
et al
., 1997
);
Laos
(
Kishida and Yano, 2020
);
Vietnam
(
Kitching and Spitzer, 1995
); peninsular
Malaysia
(Borneo) (
Holloway, 1987
);
Taiwan
(
Fu
et al.,
2013
, Wu
et al
., 2020).
Larval hostplants
: Unknown in
India
.
Remarks:
The species is recorded here for the first time from
Manipur
.