Targalla palliatrix ( Guenée, 1852 )

Joshi, Rahul, Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil & Farooqui, Shahabab A., 2024, A Catalogue of Indian Euteliidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea), Zootaxa 5448 (2), pp. 151-182 : 165

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5448.2.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1763FCB2-A52E-4133-A68C-BA79793D48CE

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11247319

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scientific name

Targalla palliatrix ( Guenée, 1852 )
status

 

47. Targalla palliatrix ( Guenée, 1852) View in CoL : 305 ( Penicillaria )

TL: Java [ Indonesia]

= Eutelia opposita Walker [1863] : 67 (TL: Borneo, Sarawak)

Distribution. Indian records: Arunachal Pradesh ( Sondhi et al. 2021). Global records: Taiwan, Java, Borneo, Sundaland eastwards to Fiji and Samoa ( Kononenko & Pinratana 2013, Watabiki & Yoshimatsu 2014).

Remarks. This species is very similar to T. infida (Walker [1858], 1857) (treated as synonym of T. palliatrix by Kononenko & Pinratana 2013). The type locality of T. infida , was mentioned as Hindostan ( Guenée 1852)) and this could be the reason of reporting of T. palliatrix from India. However, Watabiki & Yoshimatsu (2014) revived the status of T. infida and confirmed its type locality as Burma [ Myanmar] and restricted T. infida distribution to Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and Australia. Further, they also restricted the distribution of T. palliatrix to Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. The report from Arunachal Pradesh by Sondhi et al. (2021) is probably a misidentification and represents another indian species i.e. Targalla sugii Holloway, 1985 . The report of T. palliatrix from India is doubtful and needs further confirmation.

Guenee, A. (1852) Noctuelites 3. In: Boisduval, J. B. A. D. & Guenee, A. (Eds.), Histoire Naturelle des Insectes (Lepidoptera), Species General des Lepidopteres, 7, pp. 1 - 442, pls. 1 - 24.

Holloway, J. D. (1985) Moths of Borneo. Part 14. Family Noctuidae: Subfamilies Euteliinae, Stictopterinae, Plusiinae, Pantheinae. Malayan Nature Journal, 38, 157 - 317.

Kononenko, V. S. & Pinratana, A. (2013) Moth of Thailand. Vol. 3. Part 2. Noctuoidea. An illustrated Catalogue of Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae and Noctuidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) in Thailand. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok, 625 pp.

Sondhi, S., Karmakar, T., Sondhi, Y. & Kunte, K. (2021) Moths of Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India with seventeen additions to the moth fauna of India (Lepidoptera: Heterocera). Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 31 (Supplement 2), 1 - 53.

Watabiki, D. & Yoshimatsu, S. (2014) Taxonomic study of Targalla delatrix (Guenee) and its close relatives from East and Southeast Asia with description of a new species (Lepidoptera, Euteliidae). Lepidoptera Science, 65 (4), 158 - 178.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

SuperFamily

Noctuoidea

Family

Euteliidae

SubFamily

Euteliinae

Genus

Targalla