Range extension of the Macroglossum pyrrhosticta Butler, 1875, in Northwestern India (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)

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https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.275

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Lepidoptera, Sphingidae, female genitalia, Macroglossum pyrrhosticta, new record, India

Abstract

During a faunistic survey of Lepidoptera in Sasni (27.7063º N, 78.0823º E; 181 m), Uttar Pradesh, a specimen of Macroglossum pyrrhosticta Butler, 1875, was collected and thus the species reported for the first time from the Gangetic Plains Biogeographic Zone of India, as well as North-West India as a whole. Details of the known larval host plants of M. pyrrhosticta are also provided, together with a checklist of the Indian species of genus Macroglossum Scopoli, 1777.

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2022-12-30

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Farooqui, S. A., Kitching, I. J., Parwez, H., & Joshi, R. (2022). Range extension of the Macroglossum pyrrhosticta Butler, 1875, in Northwestern India (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). SHILAP Revista De lepidopterología, 50(200), 653–658. https://doi.org/10.57065/shilap.275

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