Phlogophora striatovirens ( Moore, 1867 )

Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran, Dey, Rushati, Bhattacharyya, Kamalika, Mallick, Kaushik, Mazumder, Arna, Gayen, Subrata, Das, Moumita, Raha, Angshuman, Sanyal, Abesh Kumar, Kumar, Vikas, Uniyal, Virendra Prasad & Chandra, Kailash, 2021, Taxonomy and ecology of genus Phlogophora Treitschke, 1825 (Lepidoptera Noctuidae) in Indian Himalaya with description of a new species, Zootaxa 5004 (2), pp. 311-342 : 330-331

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5004.2.4

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5756924

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scientific name

Phlogophora striatovirens ( Moore, 1867 )
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Euplexia striatovirens Moore, 1867 , Proc. Zool. Soc.: 58.

Euplexia discisignata Moore : Hampson, 1894, Fauna Brit. Ind., 2: 213.

Euplexia striatovirens Moore : Hampson, 1908, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus., 7: 233.

Phlogophora striatovirens (Moore) : Yoshimoto, 1994, in Haruta, Tinea , 14: 111.

Type locality: Darjeeling [ India, West Bengal]

Material examined: India: 1 ♂, West Bengal, Dist. Darjeeling, Singalila National Park, Gairibas , 27.05090° N, 088.03360° E, 2494 m, 21. V. 2018; coll. K. Bhattacharyya & team GoogleMaps .

1 ♀, Arunachal Pradesh, Dist. Dibang Valley, Dihang Dibang Biosphere Reserve, Anini , Patharnallah , 29.10532° N, 096.08074° E, 2029 m, 19. IV. 2017 GoogleMaps ; 1 ♀, Bruni , 29.15354° N, 096.14857° E, 2436 m, 20. IV. 2017; coll. S. Gayen. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis: Wing expanse: Male: 28–30 mm, female: 30–32 mm. Although being very distinctive morphologically, it was earlier considered as a junior subjective synonym of P. discisignata by Hampson (1894). In 1908, he treated both the species as different which was confirmed recently as Gyulai et al. (2015) discussed significant differences in morphology between the two species. P. striatovirens differs mainly in the ground colour of forewing being rusty brown to greenish in fresh or live specimens. Presence of a double, sinuous basal line with black inner edge and an antemedial double line with black outer edge; postmedial line double, sinuous, black-edged enclosing the reniform mark which is partly filled with black on inner half; submarginal line pale yellowish-green, highly dentate with a pale patch on its inner edge between veins 7 and 4; marginal area dark purplish fuscous.

Male genitalia: Uncus spatulate, valva broad with strongly sclerotised harpe bearing multiple irregular spines; the dorsal margin of sacculus also heavily sclerotised but lacks spines; aedeagus slender, carinal region sclerotised with minute spines; vesica long with small cornuti in the basal part.

Distribution: India: Sikkim, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland ( Moore 1867; Hampson 1908).

Global: Nepal, China ( Yoshimoto 1994; Han et al. 2008).

Bionomics: Distributed in Central to Eastern Himalaya and North-Eastern Hills, the species was recorded to fly within altitudinal zone of 2000–2500 m, preferably in Temperate and Coniferous forests. Individuals were found to be active in early pre-monsoon months of April–May in a narrow range of average trap night temperature at 9–11 ºC and an annual precipitation range of 1200–2200 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Phlogophora

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Phlogophora striatovirens ( Moore, 1867 )

Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran, Dey, Rushati, Bhattacharyya, Kamalika, Mallick, Kaushik, Mazumder, Arna, Gayen, Subrata, Das, Moumita, Raha, Angshuman, Sanyal, Abesh Kumar, Kumar, Vikas, Uniyal, Virendra Prasad & Chandra, Kailash 2021
2021
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Euplexia striatovirens

Moore 1867
1867
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Euplexia discisignata

Moore 1867
1867
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