Estigena pardale pardale ( Walker, 1855b: 1453 ) (Megasoma)

Joshi, Rahul, Singh, Navneet & Ahmad, Jalil, 2023, An annotated catalogue of Indian Lasiocampidae (Lasiocampoidea, Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5228 (5), pp. 547-583 : 557-558

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scientific name	Estigena pardale pardale ( Walker, 1855b: 1453 ) (Megasoma)
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23. Estigena pardale pardale ( Walker, 1855b: 1453) (Megasoma) View in CoL

= Gastropacha abstracta Walker, 1865: 551 View in CoL

= Labeda scriptiplaga Walker, 1865: 569

TL: [West Bengal], Darjeeling.

TD: holotype, male , NHMUK.

Distribution in India: West Bengal ( Sevastopulo 1956); throughout India, Nagaland (Nagas), Andaman & Nicobar Islands (Andamans) ( Chandra et al. 2018a, Hampson 1892 as Estigena pardalis ); Punjab, Maharashtra ( Mitra et al. 2019, Gurule & Nikam 2013); Punjab ( Singh et al. 2019), Semi-arid zone ( Chandra et al. 2021); Jharkhand ( Singh & Ahmad 2017). Global records: Pakistan, southern China, Taiwan, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Java, Sumatra ( Hauenstein et al. 2011).

Remarks: Estigena pardale sinensis ( Tams, 1935: 50) from South China, Thailand and Estigena pardale formosana ( Tams, 1935: 51) from Formosa (Taiwan) are also known. Further, type locality for pardale was cited as Java by Zolotuhin & Pinratana (2005).

Moreover, the two subspecies mentioned below need further study and can be raised to species rank in future like koniensis Tams.

References

Chandra, K., Gupta, D., Kushwaha, S., Das, P. & Ghosh, J. (2018 a) Arthropoda: Hexapoda. In: Chandra, K. & Raghunathan, C. (Eds.), Faunal Diversity of Biogeographic Zones: Islands of India. Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 247 - 320.

Chandra, K., Singh, L. R. K., Joshi, R. & Gupta, D. (2021) Lepidoptera (Moth). In: Chandra, K., Gupta, D. & Raghunathan, C. (Eds.), Faunal Diversity of Biogeographic Zones of India: Semi-arid. Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 177 - 191.

Gurule, S. & Nikam, S. (2013) The moths (Lepidoptera: Heterocera) of northern Maharashtra: a preliminary checklist. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 5 (12), 4693 - 4713. https: // doi. org / 10.11609 / JoTT. o 2555.4693 - 713

Hampson, G. F. (1892) The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Moths. - Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London, 527 pp.

Hauenstein, A., Ihle, S., Sinjaev, V. V. & Zolotuhin, V. V. (2011) The Lasiocampidae of Bhutan (Lepidoptera Lasiocampidae). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten, 67, 27 - 35.

Mitra, B., Chandra, K., Shah, S. K. & Kumar, J. (2019) Lepidoptera. In: Director ZSI (Ed.), Fauna of Maharashtra. State Fauna Series 20. Part 3. Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 89 - 209.

Sevastopulo, D. G. (1956) Notes on the Heterocera of Calcutta (Lepidoptera). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 54, 302 - 308.

Singh, N., Ahmad, J. & Joshi, R. (2017) Diversity of moths (Lepidoptera) with new faunistic records from North East Jharkhand, India. Records Zoological Survey of India, 117 (4), 326 - 340. https: // doi. org / 10.26515 / rzsi / v 117 / i 4 / 2017 / 121289

Singh, N., Pathania, P. C., Das, A., Majumder, A. & Sood, R. (2019) Lepidoptera (Moths). In: Director ZSI (Ed.), Fauna of Punjab. State Fauna Series 23. Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 307 - 355.

Tams, W. H. T. (1935) Lepidoptera II. Heterocera. In: van Straelen, V. (Ed.), Resultats scientifiques du voyage aux Indes orientales Neerlandaises de LL. AA. RR. le Prince et la Princesse Leopold de Belgique. Memoires du Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, Series 12, 4, pp. 31 - 64.

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Zolotuhin, V. V. & Pinratana, A. (2005) The Moths of Thailand 4: Lasiocampidae: An Illustrated Catalogue of the Lasiocampidae (Lepidoptera) in Thailand. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok, 205 pp.