Aquis orbicularis (Walker, 1858)

Joshi, Rahul, Singh, Navneet & Kuni, Nikhil, 2021, A catalogue of Nolidae Bruand, 1846 from India (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea), Zootaxa 5034 (1), pp. 1-112 : 58

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scientific name

Aquis orbicularis (Walker, 1858)
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3. Aquis orbicularis (Walker, 1858) ( Fig. 37 View FIGURES 33–40 )

Diomea orbicularis Walker, 1858 , List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, 15: 1804.

Labanda griseinigra Hampson, 1894 , The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, Moths, 2: 374.

TL: Sri Lanka. Holotype.

TD: NHMUK.

Material examined. Bihar: Rajgir, Ghora Katora , (N24°59.949’, E85°26.938’), 11-14.VIII.2018, 3 ex., leg. R. Joshi GoogleMaps ; Bodhgaya, Gautam Budha WLS, Lohawar Hill , (N24°28.378’, E85°09.657’), 08.VIII.2018, 1 ex., leg. R. Joshi GoogleMaps ; same data, 26.VIII.2017, 1 ex., leg. N. Singh GoogleMaps ; West Champaran, Valmiki Tiger Reserve, Mangooraha , (N27°18.482’, E84°31.751’, 300m), 17.X.2017, 3 ex., leg. N. Singh. GoogleMaps

Distribution in India. Bihar (present study); Sikkim, Ganjam ( Hampson 1894); Jharkhand ( Joshi et al. 2019).

Elsewhere. Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo ( Holloway 2003); Thailand, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indonesia ( Kononenko and Pinratana 2013).

Hampson, G. F. (1894) The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths. Vol. 2. Taylor and Francis, London, 609 pp.

Holloway, J. D. (2003) The Moths of Borneo (part 18): Family Nolidae. Southdene Sdn. Bhd., Kuala Lumpur, 279 pp.

Joshi, R., Singh, N. & Laszlo, G. M. (2019) An updated Checklist of subfamily Nolinae (Lepidoptera, Nolidae) from India. Records Zoological Survey of India, 119 (3), 263 - 281.

Kononenko, V. S. & Pinratana, A. (2013) Moths of Thailand. Vol. 3. Part 2. Noctuoidea. An illustrated Catalogue of Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae and Noctuidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) in Thailand. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok, 625 pp.

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FIGURES 33–40. Nolidae Adults: 33, Eligma narcissus; 34, Negritothripa orbifera; 35, Selepa celtis; 36, Alcanola tympanistis; 37, Aquis orbicularis; 38, Barasa lunisigna; 39, Calonola argyria; 40, Calonola ectrocta.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Nolidae

Genus

Aquis