Spilosoma howqua Moore, 1877

Ahmad, Jalil, Shah, Suresh Kr., Mishra, Purnendu, Joshi, Rahul & Singh, Navneet, 2023, New record of moths (Lepidoptera) from India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 123 (1), pp. 13-20 : 15

6. Spilosoma howqua Moore, 1877 ( Figure 6 )

1877. Spilosoma howqua Moore, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (4) 20 (116): 88

Material examined: Bihar: VTR: Rest house, 10.x.2017, 01 ex. (♀) (Coll. Singh and Ahmad) .

Diagnosis: Female adults with pale buff colour, marking and spots on the forewing less distinct; hindwings with a small discoidal spot, sub-marginal series of prominent black spots,; Abdomen red dorsally, having one dorsal and two lateral rows of black spots.

Distribution: India, Bihar (present study); China, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam ( Černý & Pinratana, 2009).

Figures

Figures 1-7. Adults: 1. Nosophora maculalis (Leech, 1889), 2. Oreta loochooana Swinhoe, 1902, 3. Eugoa brun- nea Hampson, 1914, 4. Fossia melanandra (Černý, 2009), 5. Miltochrista roseogrisea (Rothschild, 1913), 6. Spilosoma howqua Moore, 1877, 7. Adrapsa ablualis Walker, (1859).