Xanthogramma indica, NAYAR, 1968

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XANTHOGRAMMA INDICA NAYAR, 1968

Nayar (1968) described a new species from India based on a single female from Kalatop, Dalhousie ( India: Himachal Pradesh) and mentioned that it was similar to X. citrinum Brunettii (= Citrogramma citrinum ). Based on his original description, this species can be separated from the genus Citrogramma based on abdominal pattern, with terga 3 and 4 with two lateral curved yellow maculae. Xanthogramma indica and X. pruthii are both described from northern India and they share a similar abdominal and mesonotal pattern, medial black facial vitta, frons, leg colour pattern, and pleural pattern. Hence X. indica and X. pruthii could be the same species. This argument was corroborated by Ghorpadé (unpubl. data), who studied the type material at the Zoological Survey of India (NZSI, Calcutta) and synonymized it with S. latimaculata after examining the type material of S. latimaculata at BMNH, London.

Thus, the genus Xanthogramma has not so far been found in the Oriental Region, except for Xanthogramma coreanum Shiraki, 1930 , taken in some Oriental Provinces of southern China (K. Ghorpadé pers. comm.).