A record of Ourapteryx dierli Inoue, 1994 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae) from the Garhwal Himalaya, India

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  • Arun P. Singh Entomology Branch https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0981-9050
  • Lekhendra Entomology Branch, Forest Protection Division, Forest Research Institute, P.O. New Forest, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248006, India.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.6779.13.8.19171-19172

Keywords:

Ban oak forest, Garhwal Himalaya, Pre-monsoon, moth screen

Abstract

The current record of Ourapterya dierli Inoue,1994 (Lepidoptera: Geometriidae: Ennominae) from Garhwal Himalaya, India further extends the western most limit in the distribution range of this species  in the Himalaya, up to Chakrata hills which is 250km from the nearest known earlier record from Munsiyari in Kumaon,India and is the first record from Garhwal and second of this species from India.

References

Champion, H.G. & S.K. Seth (1968). A Revised Forest Types of India. Manager of Publications, Government of India, Delhi.

Inoue, H. (1994). Descripton of a new species of Ourapteryx Leach (Geometridae: Ennominae) from central Nepal. Tinea 14(1): 10–12.

Inoue, H. (1995). The genera Abraxas and Ourapteryx from Nepal (Geometridae, Ennominae), pp. 119–139. In: Haruta, T. (ed.). (1995). Moths of Nepal. Part 4. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo, 206pp+32pls.

Sondhi, S., D.N. Basu & K. Kunte (2020). First record of Ourapteryx dierli Inoue, 1994 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae) from India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 12(13): 16916–16919. https://doi.org/10.11609/jot.5524.12.13.16916-16919

Stüning, D. (1994). On the identity of Ourapteryx ebuleata Guenee, 1857, O. multstrigaria Walker, 1866, and O. caschmirensis Bastelberger, 1911, with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Ennominae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo (NF) 15: 109–134.

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