Eudocima materna (Linnaeus, 1767)

Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil, Kaustubh, Kumar & Joshi, Rahul, 2019, New distributional records of Eudocima Billberg, 1820 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Calpinae) from Gangetic Plains (India), Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119 (3) : -

1. Eudocima materna (Linnaeus, 1767)

Phalaena materna Linnaeus, 1767 ; Syst. Nat. (Edn 12), 1 (2): 840

Material examined: India: Bihar, Patna, ZSI Campus (25°35’10.42” N; 85°10’05.19” E; Alt.- 169 ft.) ,

02.viii.2017 –01 ex (Coll.-K. Kaustubh), 30.ix.2018 -01 ex ( Coll. - R. Joshi ); Patna, Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park (25°35’57.11” N; 85°05’56.59” E; Alt. - 200 ft.) , 27.ix.2015 - 01 ex (coll.- J. Ahmad); Gaya , Gautam Budha WLS (24°31’29.32” N; 85°01’09.62” E; Alt. - 520 ft.) , 22.viii.2017 – 01 exp. (Coll.- N. Singh and Party)

Diagnostic feature: Forewing greenish grey with three rufous spots at end of cell; with a zig-zag line in the middle. Hindwing orange with a prominent black spot and crenulated marginal black band. Male genitalia with juxta lobes flat, flap-like; Aedeagus vesica with 4-5 rows of compactly packed spines.

Distribution: Throughout India ( Hampson, 1894), Uttarakhand ( Smetacek, 2008), Assam, Maharashtra (Subhalaxmi et al., 2011), Andhra Pradesh ( Ramachandrachari and Padmanabham, 1960), Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan ( Zhang, 1994), Widespread in African, S. Palaearctic and Indo-Australian regions up to the Central Pacific ( Zilli et al., 2017). Elsewhere: Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Venezuela, Widespread in old world tropics ( Zhang, 1994).

Host Plant: Mangifera indica (Mango) , Punica granatum (Pomegranate) , Rhigiocarya racemifera , Tinospora cordifolia (Giloy) , Musa paradisiaca (Banana) , Malus pumila (Apple) , Citrus, Solanum lycopersicum (Tomatoes) , Rhigiocarya racemos, Lycopersicon. ( Zhang, 1994; Robinson et al., 2001).

Remarks: The species is recorded for the first time from Bihar and confirms first record from the state.