Achaea janata ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

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 : 1116

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.15560/13.6.1101

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scientific name

Achaea janata ( Linnaeus, 1758 )
status

 

Achaea janata ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Noctua melicerta Drury [1773] : 46.

Noctua tigrina Fabricius 1781: 218 .

Catocala traversii Fereday 1877: 457 .

Ophiusa ekeikei Bethune-Baker 1906: 256 .

Achaea janata Linnaeus — Kobes, 1985: 39.

Material examined. Table 3.

Remarks. This species is slightly smaller than Achaea serva and Achaea mezentia . Hindwing with white medial band broader. Male genital structure the uncus is long and sickle shaped and valvae symmetrical.

Bethune-Baker GT (1906) New Noctuidae from British New Guinea. Novitates Zoologicae, Hazell Watson & Viney, LD, London, 13: 191 - 287.

Fabricius JC (1781) Species Insectorum exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalis, metamorphosin, Adjectis Observationibus, Descriptionibus. 1. Hamburgi et Kilonii, impensis C. E. Bohnii, 1 - 552 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 36509

Fereday RW (1877) Description of the species of Catocala new to science. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand 9: 457 - 459.

Kobes LWR (1985) Weitere 3 neue Arten aus dem Regenwald (Lep., Noctuidae: Acronictinae, Euteliinae, Ophiderinae). Heterocera Sumatrana 2: 49 - 56.

Linnaeus C (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Salvius, Holmiae, [4] + 824 pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Achaea