Chilkasa falcata Swinhoe, 1885

Sivasankaran, Kuppusamy, Anand, Sekar, Mathew, Pratheesh & Ignacimuthu, Savarimuthu, 2017, Checklist of the superfamily Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) from Tamil Nadu, Western Ghats, India, Check List 13 (6), pp. 1101-1120 : 1117

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.15560/13.6.1101
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scientific name	Chilkasa falcata Swinhoe, 1885
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Treatment

Pleurona perhamata Hampson 1894: 549 .

Acygonia difformis Roepke 1948: 226 View in CoL .

Chilkasa falcata Swinhoe — Holloway, 1976: 38.

Material examined. Table 3; Figure 12

Remarks. The name is based on the description of the adult forewings. This species differs from Pleurona falcata based on morphology. The male forewing apex which is more produced and acute. Outer margin of hind wing is angled in the female, but not in the male.

References

Hampson GF (1894) Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma (Moths). Vol. 2. Taylor and Francis, London, xxii + 609 pp.

Holloway JD (1976) The Moths of Borneo with Special Reference to Mont Kinabalu. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur, 264 pp.

Roepke, W. 1948. Lepidoptera Heterocera from the Summit of Mt. Tanggamus, 2100 m in Southern Sumatra. Tijdschrift voor Entomlogie 89: 209 - 232.

Swinhoe C (1885) On the Lepidoptera of Bombay and the Decan. Heterocera. Parts II. Proceeding of the Zoological Society of London 2: 852 - 886, pl. 56.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Noctuidae
Genus	Chilkasa