Tethea consimilis commifera (Warren, 1912)

Joshi, Rahul, Singh, Navneet, László, Gyula M. & Ahmad, Jalil, 2020, An updated Checklist of Superfamily Drepanoidea (Lepidoptera) from India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 120 (1), pp. 1-24 : 20

159. Tethea consimilis commifera (Warren, 1912)

1912. Saronaga commifera Warren, In Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde , 2: 322.

1966. Tethea consimilis szechwanensis Werny, Untersuchungen über die Systematik …… ( Lepidoptera , Thyatiridae ): 407.

2007. Tethea consimilis commifera : László et al., Esperiana , 13: 119.

Distribution: India: India (Sabathu) (Warren, 1912; László et al., 2007); Indian Himalayas ( Kim et al., 2006), Himachal Pradesh ( László et al., 2007). Elsewhere: China (Yunnan, Sichuan, Tibet), Nepal ( László et al., 2007).

Remarks: The species is widely distributed and represented by five subspecies: the nominate one occurs in the Pacific region ( Japan, Russian Far East, Korea), T. consimilis c-album ( Matsumura, 1931) is endemic to Taiwan, T. consimilis commifera (Warren, 1912) is distributed from Himachal Pradesh through Nepal and Sikkim to Yunnan, Sichuan and the Wuyshan areas in China, T. consimilis aurisigna ( Bryk, 1943) occurs in the northern regions of Indochina and Malaysia, finally T. consimilis congener (Roepke, 1945) is supposedly endemic to Sumatra ( László et al., 2007).