Mocis frugalis ( Fabricius, 1775 )

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 : 1114

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scientific name	Mocis frugalis ( Fabricius, 1775 )
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Mocis frugalis ( Fabricius, 1775)

Noctua frugalis Fabricius 1775: 601 .

Chalciope lycopodia Geyer 1837: 25 .

Remigia translata Walker 1865: 1015 .

Remigia nigripunctata Warren 1913: 333 .

Mocis frugalis Fabricius — Holloway 1976: 31; Kobes 1985: 49.

Material examined. Table 3; Figure 7

Remarks. This taxon was treated as two distinct species: Afrotropical M. proverai Zilli (2000) ; Indo-Australian M. frugalis and recognized the old concept of M. frugalis by Zilli (200b). The pale ochreous brown colour of both wings similar in Trigonodes hyppasia whereas lacking the black triangles. Male genitalia with uncus broad, harpe well developed.

References

Fabricius JC (1775) Systema Entomolgiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. Officina Libraria Kortii, Lipsiae, xxxii + 832 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 36510

Geyer C (1837) Zutrage zur Sammlung exotischer Schmettlinge [sic]: bestehend in Bekundigung einzelner Fliegmuster neuer oder rarer nichteuropaischer Gattungen 25: 897 - 898, pl. 154. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 12439

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

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

Walker F (1865) List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Vol. 33. Edward Newman, London, 863 - 1015.

Warren W (1913) Eulenartige Nachtfalter. In: Seitz A (Ed) Die Gross- Schmetterlinge der Erde. Abteilung 1. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge des Palaearktischen Faunengebietes. Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart, 511 pp.