Aegilia describens (Walker, [1858])

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 : 1103

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.15560/13.6.1101
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6494887
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0385BE04-FFF9-7B5A-FCEB-FA4337E20E77
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scientific name	Aegilia describens (Walker, [1858])
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Lophoptera xylinata Walker, 1865: 920 .

Stictoptera anisoptera Snellen, 1880: 88 .

Stictoptera anca Swinhoe, 1919: 120 .

Material examined. Table 3; Figure 54.

Remarks. This species was recorded by Holloway (2005) on the basis of survey from Borneo. This species is differentiated from other taxa mainly by characters of male and female genitalia. Externally it is similar to A. sundascribens .

References

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

Snellen PCT (1880) Lepidoptera van Celebes verzameld door Mr. C. Piepers, metaanteekeningen en beschrijiving der nieuwe soorten. Tijdschrift voor Entomlogie 23: 88 - 98.

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