Antheua servula ( Drury, 1773 )

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 : 49

Antheua servula ( Drury, 1773)

Phal[aena] Noc[tua] servula Drury, 1773 ; 2: 20.

Noctua servula Drury, 1773 ; 2: 20.

Bombyx stricta Fabricius, 1798: 438 .

Antheua discalis Walker, 1855 ; 4: 767.

Antheua exanthemata Moore, 1883 ; 2: 111.

Antheua servula exanthemata ; Swinhoe, 1890; 1: 190.

Antheua obscura van Eecke, 1929 ; 12: 162.

Antheua servula ; Schintlmeister, 2013; 11: 36.

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

Distribution: India: Himachal Pradesh (Shimla), Uttarakhand (Nainital), Bihar (Palamau Tiger Reserve), Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh (Indore, Damoh, Bandhavgarh NP), Maharashtra ( Mumbai), Tamil Nadu (Nilgiri Hills). Elsewhere: Indonesia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka.

Material Examined: Chhattisgarh, Raipur dist., Barnawapara WLS, Barnawapara Camp (21.1741°N; 82.4218°E 321 m) , 01.vii.2011 (3 exs.), 03.vii.2011 (1 ex.), Kailash Chandra & Party; 04.vii.2011 (4 exs.), 05.vii.2011 (2 exs.), 08.vii.2011 (4 exs.), 10.vii.2011 (3 exs.), 11.vii.2011 (4 exs.), 12.vii.2011 (5 exs.), 14.vii.2011 (4 exs.), 17.vii.2011 (1 ex.), 20.vii.2011 (4 exs.), 23.vii.2011 (1 ex.), 27.vii.2011 (1 ex.), 05.viii.2011 (1 ex.), 06.viii.2011 (1 ex.), 11.viii.2011 (2 exs.), 24.ix.2011 (1 ex.); Bar Village (21.1741°N; 82.4218°E, 321 m), 14.vii.2011 (1 ex.), leg. S. Gupta & Party ; Koriya dist., Guru Ghasidas NP, Sonhat FRH (23.4757°N; 82.5266°E, 690 m), 27.vi.2012 (3 exs.), leg. A. Parida & Party ; Surguja dist., Mainpat, Jaljali Forest (22.8186°N; 83.2583°E, 1133 m) , 11.ix.2012 (1 ex.); Bilaspur dist., Karidongri FRH (22.3486°N; 81.6093°E, 380 m) , 19.ix.2012 (1ex.); Kabirdham dist., Lalpur, Saroda Dam (21.9761°N; 81.1403°E, 469 m) , 22.ix.2012 (1 ex.); Durg, Balod (20.7145°N; 81.1799°E, 403 m), 01.x.2013 (1 ex.), Coll. A. Raha & Party.

Note: Plants of family Gramineae act as hosts of this species.