Rhagastis confusa Rothschild and Jordan, 1903

Irungbam, Jatishwor Singh & Fric, Zdeněk Faltýnek, 2021, Checklist of the family Sphingidae Latreille, 1802 (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea) from Shirui Hills, Manipur, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (1), pp. 173-194 : 190

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v121/i1/2021/153911

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A5768783-1604-E05B-FF05-D54EFBAA4DC1

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scientific name

Rhagastis confusa Rothschild and Jordan, 1903
status

 

35. Rhagastis confusa Rothschild and Jordan, 1903 View in CoL - Indistinct Mottled Hawkmoth ( Figure 3 View Figure 3 : Q)

1903. Rhagastis confusa Rothschild andJordan, Novit. zool., 9 (suppl.): 793 (key), 795.

Material examined: INDIA, Manipur, Ukhrul District, Shirui Hills, Site 3 (25.1171ºN 94.4456ºE), 2190 m asl GoogleMaps ,

13.ix.2019 - 2 ♂, IJ2293, IJ2294, coll. J.S. Irungbam.

Wingspan: ♂, 76 mm. Forewing length: 37 mm.

Distribution: India: Arunachal Pradesh ( Athreya, 2013); Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim ( Chandra et al., 2014); Manipur; Meghalaya ( Mandal and Ghosh, 1999); Uttarakhand ( Smetacek, 1994, 2008); West Bengal ( Shah et al., 2018). Elsewhere: Northern Pakistan ( Rafi et al., 2014); Nepal ( Kishida, 1998); Bhutan ( Irungbam and Irungbam, 2019); Thailand ( Inoue et al., 1997), southwestern China ( Pittaway and Kitching, 2020); northern Vietnam ( Kitching and Spitzer, 1995).

Larval hostplants: Vitis spp. (Vitiaceae) in India ( Bell and Scott, 1937).

Remarks: The species is recorded here for the first time from Manipur.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Sphingidae

Genus

Rhagastis

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