Himala argentea (Walker, 1855)

Bali, Gagan Preet Kour, Kaleka, Amritpal Singh & Singh, Devinder, 2020, A new combination of a tussock moth species under Genus Himala Moore (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) and its range extension, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 120 (4), pp. 357-362 : 358-359

Himala argentea (Walker, 1855) ( Figure 1)

1855. Redoa argentea Walker, List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln. Brit. Ind., 4: 827.

1859. Dasychira ilita Moore, Cat. Lepid. Ins. Mus. Nat., 2: 341.

1879. Himala argentea Walker: Moore, Descr. Ind. Lepid. Coll. Atkinson. 1: 57.

1892. Himala argentea Walker: Hampson, Moths India, 1: 467.

1922. Himala argentea Walker: Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.,(9) 10 (58): 471.

2003. Himala argentea Walker: Chao, Fauna Sinica, 30: 304.

2008. Himala argentea Walker: Smetacek, Bionotes, 10 (1): 14.

2012. Himala argentea Walker: Kaleka, Colemania, 31: 9.

2018. Himala argentea Walker: Kaleka et al., Ann. Entomol., 36 (1): 27-30.

Type- locality: India (Assam)

Wing Expanse: Male: 52mm; Female: 62mm.

Body Length: Male: 16mm- 18mm; Female: 17mm- 21mm. Material examined: 1 ♂ (LYM-62i): India, Himachal Pradesh, Kalhel (32.737°N, 76.111°E), Alt. 1920 masl .,

23.ix.2015; 1 ♀ (LYM-62xvi): India, Himachal Pradesh, Majhwar (31.975°N, 76.774°E), Alt. 375 masl ., 15.ix.2015; 1 ♂ (LYM-62ii): India, Himachal Pradesh, NainaTikkar (30.805°N, 77.117°E), Alt. 1297 masl ., 5.vii.2014; 1♀ (LYM-62 xvii): 01.ix.2015; 3♂ (LYM-62iii-v) & 1♀ (LYM-62xviii): 15.ix.2015; 7 ♂ (LYM-62vi-xii): India, Himachal Pradesh, Pokhuri (32.445°N, 76.023°E), Alt. 489 masl .,

15.ix.2014; 1 ♂ (LYM-62xiii): India, Himachal Pradesh, Ropa (31.795°N, 78.421°E), 2086 masl ., 14.ix.2014; 1 ♂ (LYM-62xiv): India, Himachal Pradesh, Sainj (31.770°N,

77.304°E), Alt. 1337 masl., 19.ix.2014; 1 ♂ (LYM-62xv): India, Uttarakhand, Kasauni (29.844°N, 79.603°E), Alt. 1890 masl, 14.vi.2015, Collected by: Gagan Bali .

Distribution: India: Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand (Smetacek, 2008, Kaleka et al., 2018), Sikkim, Assam; Elsewhere: China (Chao, 2003).

Remarks: This species has already been studied and illustrated in detail by Kaleka et al. (2018).