Pydnella (Phalera) grotei, Moore, 1860

Chandra, Kailash, Mazumder, Arna, Sanyal, Abesh Kumar, Ash, Anirban, Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran, Mallick, Kaushik & Raha, Angshuman, 2018, Catalogue of Indian Notodontidae Stephens, 1829 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), Zootaxa 4505 (1), pp. 1-84 : 47

Phalera (Phalera) grotei Moore, 1860

Phalera grotei Moore, 1860 ; 2: 434.

Phalera cossoides Walker, 1862; 1: 80.

Phalera cihuai Yang & Lee, 1978; 2: 487.

Phalera birmicola obfuscata Nakamura, 1978; 10: 221.

Phalera (Phalera) grotei ; Schintlmeister, 2013; 11: 331.

TL: Kolkata [West Bengal, India]; TD: NHMUK

Distribution: India: Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand (Kumaon, Dehradun), West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh (Pakke TR), Assam, Nagaland, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra (Sanjay Gandhi NP, Malshej Ghat), Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andaman Islands. Elsewhere: Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Indonesia (Borneo), Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Vietnam.

Material Examined: Uttarakhand, Uttarkashi dist., Govind WLS, NT14 (31.0709°N; 78.1062°E, 1405 m), 02.viii.2010 (2♂) , 22.vi.2011 (2♂), Coll. A. K. Sanyal; Chhattisgarh, Surguja dist., Mainpat FRH (22.8177°N; 83.2851°E, 1137 m), 10.ix.2012 (1♂), Coll. A. Raha & Party ; Raipur dist., Barnawapara WLS, Barnawapara Camp (21.1741°N; 84.486°E, 321 m) , 04.vii.2011 (1 ex.); Kabirdham dist., Bhoramdev WLS, Sarodadadar (22.1743°N; 81.0779°E, 891 m), 27.viii.2011 (1 ex.), leg. S. Gupta & Party ; Bastar, Jagdalpur dist., Dharpunji (19.0826°N; 82.2126°E, 569 m) , 22.vii.2012 (1 ex.); Tirathgarh FRH (18.9130°N; 81.8660°E, 233 m) , 25.vii.2012 (6 exs.); Karpavand Village (19.3657°N; 82.1562°E, 621 m) , 03.viii.2013 (1 ex.), 07.viii.2013 (3 exs.); Sanghkarmari (29.4054°N; 82.1562°E, 637 m), 09.viii.2013 (1 ex.), leg. R. P. Gupta and Party ; Surguja dist., Tara FRH, Lekhutdand (22.8299°N; 82.8180°E, 650 m), 15.ix.2012 (1 ex.), Coll. A. Raha & Party.

Note: Albizia lebbeck & Derris robusta (Fabaceae) are recorded as host plants of this species.