New distributional records of Eudocima Billberg, 1820 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Calpinae) from Gangetic Plains (India)
Author
Singh, Navneet
Lepidoptera Section, Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India; nsgill 007 @ gmail. com, jalilahmad 23046 @ gmail. com
Author
Ahmad, Jalil
Lepidoptera Section, Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India; nsgill 007 @ gmail. com, jalilahmad 23046 @ gmail. com
Author
Kaustubh, Kumar
Zoological Survey of India, Gangetic Plains Regional Centre, Patna - 800026, Bihar, India; kkarctiidae 2015 @ gmail. com, joshiarctiidae @ gmail. com
Author
Joshi, Rahul
Zoological Survey of India, Gangetic Plains Regional Centre, Patna - 800026, Bihar, India; kkarctiidae 2015 @ gmail. com, joshiarctiidae @ gmail. com
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Records of the Zoological Survey of India
2019
119
3
journal volume
10.26515/rzsi/v119/i3/2019/141015
2581-8686
13186811
1.
Eudocima materna
(Linnaeus, 1767)
Phalaena materna
Linnaeus, 1767
;
Syst. Nat.
(Edn 12),
1
(2): 840
Material examined:
India
:
Bihar
,
Patna
, ZSI
Campus
(
25°35’10.42” N
;
85°10’05.19” E
; Alt.-
169 ft.
)
,
02.viii.2017
–01 ex (Coll.-K. Kaustubh),
30.ix.2018
-01 ex (
Coll.
-
R
.
Joshi
);
Patna
,
Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park
(
25°35’57.11” N
;
85°05’56.59” E
;
Alt.
-
200 ft.
)
,
27.ix.2015
- 01 ex (coll.-
J. Ahmad
);
Gaya
,
Gautam Budha
WLS (
24°31’29.32” N
;
85°01’09.62” E
;
Alt.
-
520 ft.
)
,
22.viii.2017
– 01 exp. (Coll.- N. Singh and Party)
Diagnostic feature:
Forewing greenish grey with three rufous spots at end of cell; with a zig-zag line in the middle. Hindwing orange with a prominent black spot and crenulated marginal black band. Male genitalia with juxta lobes flat, flap-like; Aedeagus vesica with 4-5 rows of compactly packed spines.
Distribution:
Throughout
India
(
Hampson, 1894
),
Uttarakhand
(
Smetacek, 2008
),
Assam
,
Maharashtra
(Subhalaxmi
et al.,
2011),
Andhra Pradesh
(
Ramachandrachari and Padmanabham, 1960
),
Punjab
,
Tamil Nadu
,
Rajasthan
(
Zhang, 1994
), Widespread in African, S. Palaearctic and Indo-Australian regions up to the Central Pacific (
Zilli
et al.,
2017
).
Elsewhere:
Sierra Leone
,
Zimbabwe
,
Sri Lanka
,
Australia
,
Fiji
,
New Zealand
,
Venezuela
, Widespread in old world tropics (
Zhang, 1994
).
Host Plant:
Mangifera indica
(Mango)
,
Punica granatum (Pomegranate)
,
Rhigiocarya racemifera
,
Tinospora cordifolia
(Giloy)
,
Musa paradisiaca
(Banana)
,
Malus pumila (Apple)
, Citrus,
Solanum lycopersicum
(Tomatoes)
,
Rhigiocarya racemos, Lycopersicon.
(
Zhang, 1994
;
Robinson
et al
., 2001
).
Remarks:
The species is recorded for the first time from
Bihar
and confirms first record from the state.