Chlorostauropus alternus alternus (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 : 56-57

a. Chlorostauropus alternus alternus (Walker, 1855)

Stauropus alternus Walker, 1855 ; 5: 1020.

Stauropus indicus Moore, 1879: 404.

Stauropus (Chlorostauropus) alternus alternus ; Schintlmeister, 2013; 11: 425.

Chlorostauropus alternus ; Kobayashi & Nonaka, 2016; 23 (1): 29.

TL: Sylhet [ Bangladesh]; TD: NHMUK

Distribution: India: Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand (Kumaon), West Bengal (Darjeeling), Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand (Dalma WLS), Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andaman Islands. Elsewhere: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China (Taiwan), Indonesia (Borneo), Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam.

Material Examined: Chhattisgarh, Surguja dist., Balrampur FRH (23.6027°N; 83.1142°E, 576 m) , 14.xi.2011 (1 ex.), 16.xi.2011 (1 ex.); Mainpat FRH (22.8177°N; 83.2851°E, 1137 m), 21.xi.2011 (3 exs.); Korba dist., Kudmurah FRH (22.3207°N; 83.0787°E, 307 m), 26.xi.2011 (1 ex.), Coll. A. Raha & Party ; Durg, Badbhum FRH (20.5729°N; 812845°E, 419 m), 03.ii.2014 (1 ex.), 07.ii.2014 (1 ex.), leg. S. K. Gupta & Party.

Note: Highly Polyphagous. Following host records for this species are found: Acacia catechu , Acacia dealbata , Acacia decurrens , Albizia chinensis, Amherstia nobilis , Cajanus cajan, Cassia fistula, Cassia javanica, Cassia surattensis, Desmodium oojeinense, Xylia xylocarpa, Moullava spicata, Tamarindus indica (Fabaceaea) , Coffea sp. ( Rubiaceae ), Grevillea robusta (Proteaceae) , Camellia sinensis (Theaceae) , Mangifera indica (Anacardiaceae) , Planchonia careya (Lecythidaceae) , Ricinus communis, Trewia nudiflora ( Euphorbiaceae ), Rosa sp. (Roseaceae), Theobroma cacao (Malvaceae) .