Sphingonotus longipennis Saussure
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https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i4/2018/132291 |
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Felipe |
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Sphingonotus longipennis Saussure |
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23. Sphingonotus longipennis Saussure View in CoL
1878. Sphingonotus longipennis Saussure, Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. nat. Geneva, 25: 78.
2006. Sphingonotus longipennis : Mandal et al., State Fauna Series, 13: Fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, Part 2, Zool Surv. India,: 161.
Material examined: Ramgarh Range, Asarori, 2 male,
1.vii.1966, Phandowala, 1 male, 1 female, 13.xii.1966 (Coll. A. Singh and party).
Diagnosis: Body size larger than other species of the genus; dark band of the hind wings long, in the form of a quarter circle, nearly reaching the inner margin, base of wing skyblue-greenish, sometimes nearly colourless; hind tibiae with two dark bands; hind femur short, stout, only 3.3 times longer than wide; sub-genital plate, in female, with a notch on the middle of posterior margin.
Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Afghanistan, Africa, Bangladesh, Europe, Mongolia, Nepal, South East Tibet.
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