Theretra clotho (Drury, 1773)

Kaustubh, Kumar, Singh, Navneet, Joshi, Rahul & Mahboob Hassan, S. M., 2022, A preliminary Checklist of Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) from Saranda forest division, Jharkhand, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 122 (4), pp. 433-445 : 437

6. Theretra clotho (Drury, 1773) (Plate 1: Figure 5 ) Material Examined: India: Jharkhand, Saranda Forest, Kiriburu (22˚07.066 ‘ N; 85˚17.831 ‘ E), 897.7 masl ,

02.x.2018 -1ex, Jaraikela (22˚18.556’ N; 85˚06.976’ E) ,

241.8 masl, 04.x.2018 - 1 ex. (Coll. by- K. Kaustubh) .

Distribution: India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Northern Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar / Burma to tropical Southern China and Hong Kong, South East Asia and Indonesia (Chandra, et al., 2014, Irungbam, et al., 2021, Singh, et al., 2021).

Host Plant: Tetrastigma planicaule and Vitis lanceolaria (Robinson, et al., 2001).

Figures

Figures 1-6. 1. Hippotion celerio; 2. Theretra alecto; 3. Theretra silhetensis; 4. Theretra nessus; 5. Theretra clotho; 6. Theretra pallicosta.