Estigena pardale pardale ( Walker, 1855b: 1453 ) (Megasoma)

Joshi, Rahul, Singh, Navneet & Ahmad, Jalil, 2023, An annotated catalogue of Indian Lasiocampidae (Lasiocampoidea, Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5228 (5), pp. 547-583 : 557-558

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5228.5.2
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scientific name	Estigena pardale pardale ( Walker, 1855b: 1453 ) (Megasoma)
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23. Estigena pardale pardale ( Walker, 1855b: 1453) (Megasoma) View in CoL

= Gastropacha abstracta Walker, 1865: 551 View in CoL

= Labeda scriptiplaga Walker, 1865: 569

TL: [West Bengal], Darjeeling.

TD: holotype, male , NHMUK.

Distribution in India: West Bengal ( Sevastopulo 1956); throughout India, Nagaland (Nagas), Andaman & Nicobar Islands (Andamans) ( Chandra et al. 2018a, Hampson 1892 as Estigena pardalis ); Punjab, Maharashtra ( Mitra et al. 2019, Gurule & Nikam 2013); Punjab ( Singh et al. 2019), Semi-arid zone ( Chandra et al. 2021); Jharkhand ( Singh & Ahmad 2017). Global records: Pakistan, southern China, Taiwan, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Java, Sumatra ( Hauenstein et al. 2011).

Remarks: Estigena pardale sinensis ( Tams, 1935: 50) from South China, Thailand and Estigena pardale formosana ( Tams, 1935: 51) from Formosa (Taiwan) are also known. Further, type locality for pardale was cited as Java by Zolotuhin & Pinratana (2005).

Moreover, the two subspecies mentioned below need further study and can be raised to species rank in future like koniensis Tams.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
SuperFamily	Lasiocampoidea
Family	Lasiocampidae
SubFamily	Lasiocampinae
Genus	Estigena