Pingasa chloroides Galsworthy, 1998

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

8. Pingasa chloroides Galsworthy, 1998 ( Figures 8, 9 )

1998. Pingasa chloroides Galsworthy, Trans. Lepid. Soc. Japan, 49 (2): 104

Material examined: Bihar: VTR: Mangooraha , 16.x.2017, 03 ex., 28.iii.2017, 02 ex. (Coll. Singh and Ahmad).

Diagnosis: Smaller in size than Pingasa rubicaunda and P. rubimontana . Forewing whitish with traces of antemedial line, a prominent short streak in the middle of costa, terminal area of both wings suffused with black. Females paler.

Distribution: India, Bihar (present study); Hong Kong, China ( Kendrick, 2002).

Figures

Figures 8-14. Adults. 8, 9, Pingasa chloroides Galsworthy, 1998; 10, Spaniocentra kuniyukii Yazaki, 1994; 11, Corgatha tornalis Wileman, 1915; 12, Oruza crocodeta (Turner, 1903); 13, Xenochroa fulvescens (Warren, 1912); 14. Theretra rhesus (Boisduval, [1875]).