Pygaera fulgurita (Walker, 1865)

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 : 17-18

Clostera fulgurita fulgurita (Walker, 1865)

Ichthyura fulgurita Walker, 1865 ; 32 (2): 433.

Clostera fulgurita ; Schintlmeister, 2008; 1: 399.

Clostera fulgurita fulgurita ; Schintlmeister, 2013; 11: 85. TL: Hindostan [= India]; TD: NHMUK

Distribution: India: Himachal Pradesh (Chamba), Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, S India. Elsewhere: China, Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Sulawesi), Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka.

Material Examined: Uttarakhand, Uttarkashi dist., Govind WLS, NT14 (31.0609°N; 78.1272°E, 1456 m), 12.vi.2009 (1♂), Coll. A. K. Sanyal.

Note: Defoliator of exotic Poplar in India along with Flacourtia sp. and Elaeodendron sp. of the Celastraceae . Other host records are Elaeodendron glaucum of Celastraceae family, Populus ciliata ; Populus deltoides ; Populus alba , Populus nigra , Salix alba , Salix babylonica , Salix tetrasperma belonging to family Salicaceae , Xylosma longifolia , Casearia elliptica , Flacourtia ramontchii of Flacourtiaceae family.