Theretra clotho clotho (Drury, 1773)

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 : 185

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

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A5768783-1619-E046-FF20-D082FA2C4C4D

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scientific name

Theretra clotho clotho (Drury, 1773)
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25. Theretra clotho clotho (Drury, 1773) View in CoL - Common Hunter Hawkmoth ( Figure 3 View Figure 3 : G; Figure 5 View Figure 5 : A)

1773. Sphinx clotho Drury, Illust. nat. Hist. exot. Insects, 2: index (91).

Material examined: INDIA, Manipur, Ukhrul District, Shirui Hills, Site 1 (25.1264ºN 94.4357ºE), 1930 m asl GoogleMaps ,

23.vii.2019 – 4♂, IJ1421, IJ1422, IJ1423, IJ1424; Site 3 (25.1171ºN 94.4456ºE), 2190 m asl, 24.vii.2019 – 4♂, IJ1164, IJ1165, IJ1167, IJ1168; Site 4 (25.1112ºN

94.4534ºE), 2425 m asl, 25.vii.2019 – 1♂, IJ1602, coll. J.S. Irungbam.

Diagnosis: Wingspan ♂, 86 - 96 mm. forewing length 42 - 46 mm. Male genitalia ( Figure 5 View Figure 5 : A): Uncus short and massive. The lateral sétigeres lobes are broad, not very raised and strongly ciliate, but the cilia are short. The apex of the uncus is slightly curved. The harps are characteristic long and spatulate, their surface is cracked. The outer edge is irregularly domed, sometimes rounded and others almost triangular. The internal edge wears a double sclerotic and dentate sheet. Each leaflet is well developed but remains narrow throughout its length. They are clearly toothed. The teeth are small and evenly spaced but vary widely in size and shape.

Distribution: India: Andaman Island ( Chandra and Kumar, 1992); Arunachal Pradesh ( Athreya, 2013); Assam ( Arandhara et al., 2017); Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh ( Shubhalaxmi et al., 2011); Ladakh ( Sanyal et al., 2018), Jharkhand ( Sambath, 2014, Singh et al., 2017a), Karnataka (Melichar et al., 2018), Kerala ( Sondhi et al., 2018), Meghalaya ( Mandal and Ghosh, 1999), Odisha ( Mandal and Maulik 1991), Punjab ( Pathania et al., 2014), 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); Laos ( Kishida and Yano, 2020); Hong Kong ( Kendrick and Young, 2014); Taiwan ( Fu et al., 2013); Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China, Japan, Indonesia, Sundaland ( Pittaway and Kitching, 2020); the Philippines ( Hogenes, 1998).

Larval hostplants: Unknown in India.

Remarks: Shubhalaxmi et al. (2011) have mentioned the presence of the species in Manipur. The present record from Shirui Hills, confirms its presence in Manipur.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Sphingidae

Genus

Theretra

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