First record of the swallowtail moth Epiplema adamantina Inoue, 1998 (Lepidoptera: Uraniidae: Epipleminae) from western Himalaya, India

Authors

  • Lekhendra Forest Entomology Branch, Forest Protection Division, Forest Research Institute, P.O. New Forest, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248006, India. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5317-5870
  • Arun Pratap Singh Forest Entomology Branch, Forest Protection Division, Forest Research Institute, P.O. New Forest, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248006, India. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0981-9050

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.8064.14.9.21898-21899

Keywords:

wing morphology, Swallowtail Moth, Ban oak forest

Abstract

This record of Epiplema adamantina Inoue, 1998 from Mussoorie is the first confirmed record of this species from the Western Himalaya outside Nepal, which is ~800kmwest from vill. Bagmati, Mt. Phoolchauki in Eastern Nepal, the nearest known site record of this species.  The species prefers ‘Monsoon season’ as its flight period in ‘Moist temperate oak forest zone’ of Western and Central Himalayas. The  paper discusses distinguishing features of  E. adamantina with its congeners E. morataria and E. arcuata found in the same region.

References

Champion, H.G. & S.K. Seth (1968). A Revised Survey of the Forest Types of India. Government of India, Delhi, 404 pp.

Chandra, K., V. Kumar, N. Singh, A. Raha & A.K. Sanyal (2019). Assemblages of Lepidoptera in Indian Himalaya through Long Term Monitoring Plots. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 457 pp.

Hampson, G.F. (1895). The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae, Vol. 3. Taylor & Francis, London, 582 pp.

Haruta, T. (ed.) (1998). Moths of Nepal, part 5. Tinea 15, (Suppl. 1). The Japan Heterocerists Society Tokyo, 311pp.

Inoue, H. (1998). Uraniidae from Nepal, pp. 81–83. In: Haruta, T. (ed.). Moths of Nepal Part 5. Tinea 15 (Supplment 1). The Japan Heterocerists Society Tokyo, 311 pp.

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Vol. 14 No. 9 (2022)

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