Avatha noctuoides ( Guenée, 1852 )

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

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.15560/13.6.1101

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scientific name

Avatha noctuoides ( Guenée, 1852 )
status

 

Avatha noctuoides ( Guenée, 1852)

Hypaetra noctuoides Guenée 1852: 259 View in CoL .

Athyrma ptocha Prout 1925: 402 .

Material examined. Table 3; Figure 14

Remarks. This species is often mistaken for a form of Avatha discolor . Athyrma ptocha is a new synonym of

A. noctuoides of Holloway (2005). Antemedial black area subdorsally connected with smaller black flecks on the costa of the forewing.

Guenee A (1852) In: Histoire naturalle des insectes: species general des lepidopteres / par le Dr Boisduval, … [et M.] Guenee. Noctualities. Tome III. Librairie encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, 442 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9194

Holloway JD (2005) The moths of Borneo (parts 15 & 16): family Noctuidae, subfamily Catocalinae. The Malayan Nature Journal 58: 1 - 529.

Prout AE (1925) Some Malayian Noctuidae from the Raffles Museum, Singapore. The Annals Magazine of Natural History (ser. 9) 16: 395 - 405.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Avatha