Neocerura liturata liturata (Walker, 1855)

Chandra, Kailash, Mazumder, Arna, Sanyal, Abesh Kumar, Ash, Anirban, Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran, Mallick, Kaushik & Raha, Angshuman, 2018, Catalogue of Indian Notodontidae Stephens, 1829 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), Zootaxa 4505 (1), pp. 1-84 : 63-64

Neocerura liturata liturata (Walker, 1855)

Cerura liturata Walker, 1855 ; 5: 988.

Cerura damodara Moore, 1866: 812.

Dicranura argentea Felder & Felder, 1874 ; pl. 96, f. 6.

Cerura arikana Matsumura, 1927; 19 (1): 7.

Cerura liturta baibarana Matsumura, 1927 ; 19 (1): 8.

Furcula hapala West, 1932; 37: 211.

Neocerura liturata ; Kiriakoff, 1968; 217 (C): 114.

Cerura (Neocerura) liturata ; Schintlmeister & Fang, 2001; 50: 11.

Neocerura liturata liturata ; Schintlmeister, 2013; 11: 274.

TL: Sylhet [ Bangladesh] and Chennai [Tamil Nadu, India]; TD: NHMUK

Distribution: India: Uttarakhand (Kumaon), West Bengal (Buxa Tiger Reserve), Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh (Pakke TR), Jharkhand (Dalma WLS), Andhra Pradesh (Nallamalai Hills), Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh (Damoh, Seoni, Bandhavgarh NP), Maharashtra (Sanjay Gandhi NP, Malshej Ghat), Tamil Nadu (Chennai). Elsewhere: Bangladesh, Bhutan, China (Taiwan), Indonesia (Borneo, Java), Iran, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines.

Material Examined: Chhattisgarh, Bastar dist., Jagdalpur, Tirathgarh FRH (18.9130°N; 81.8660°E, 604 m), 25.vii.2012 (1♀), leg. R. P. Gupta & Party ; Jashpur dist., Badalkhol WLS, Kuhapani WT (22.9376°N; 83.7529°E, 632 m), 22.iii.2014 (1♂), Coll. A. Raha & Party.

Note: Casearia elliptica ; Flacourtia inermis ; Flacourtia jangomas ; Flacourtia Montana; Flacourtia ramontchii ; Homalium tomentosum of Flacourtiaceae family, Glycosmis pentaphylla of Rutaceae family, Terminalia tomentosa of Combretaceae family, Populus ciliate & Salix sp. of Salicaceae family are recorded host plants.