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Issue: Vol. 4407 No. 3: 11 Apr. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-04-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4407.3.10
Page range: 435–442
Abstract views: 62
PDF downloaded: 4

Description of a new Katha species from India, with a key to the Oriental species (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae)

Zoological Survey of India, Gangetic Plains Regional Centre, Sector –08, BHC, Patna– 800 026, Bihar, India.
Lepidoptera Section, Zoological Survey of India, M– Block New, Alipore, Kolkata 700 053, West Bengal, India.
Department of Zoology & Environmental Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala 1470 002, Punjab, India.
Lepidoptera Lithosiini Lithosiina checklist new combination taxonomic key

Abstract

A new species: Katha volynkini Joshi & Singh, sp. nov. is described from Mizoram & Meghalaya (North East India). A checklist of Katha species from the World with a taxonomic key to the Oriental species is provided. A new combination, Katha suffusa (Leech), comb. nov. is established, and L. chekiangica Daniel, is synonymized under K. suffusa.

 

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