Theretra clotho (Drury, 1773)

Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil & Chandra, Kailash, 2021, An updated checklist of Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) from Great Nicobar Island with a new species record from India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (3), pp. 375-381 : 377

15. Theretra clotho (Drury, 1773) ( Figure 9 )

1773. Sphinx clotho Drury, Illust. Nat. Hist. Exot. Insects 2: 48.

Material examined: Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Nicobar, bird watching point, 14.xi.2018 (12 exs.), Galathea ,

07.xi.2018 (03 exs.), 03.xi.2018 (01 exs.), watch tower,

06.xi.2018 (01 exs.), 4 km south of Vijay nagar, 12.xi.2018 (02 exs.), leg. K.C. Gopi & party (NZCZSI).

Distribution in India: Throughout the mainland (except North-West Himalaya) including Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttrakhand, West Bengal ( Singh, 2019).

Figures

Figures 1-11. Ambulyx tattina (Jordan) (1-3) 1. Imago, 2. Male genitalia, 3. Aedeagus, 4. Apocalypsis velox Butler, 1876, 5. Psilogramma discistriga Walker, 1856, 6. Daphnis hypothous crameri Eitschberger & Melichar, 2010, 7. Cechenena helops helops (Walker, 1856), 8. Pergesa acteus (Cramer, [1779]), 9. Theretra clotho (Drury, 1773), 10. Theretra lucasi (Walker, 1856), 11. Ambulyx tattina (Jordan, 1919).