66 TROP. LEPID. RES., 28(2): 66-89, 2018 SONDHI ET AL.: Moth diversity of Shendurney and Ponmudi Moth diversity (Lepidoptera: Heterocera) of Shendurney and Ponmudi in Agastyamalai Biosphere Reserve, Kerala, India, with notes on new records Yash Sondhi1, Sanjay Sondhi2, Shashank Rajendra Pathour3, and Krushnamegh Kunte4 1Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St, Miami, FL 33199, USA. 1,2Titli Trust, 49 Rajpur Road Enclave, Dhoran Khas, near IT Park, P.O. Gujrada, Dehradun 248001 Uttarakhand, India. 3Division of Entomology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India. 4National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR),GKVK Campus, Bellary Road, Bangalore 560065, Karnataka, India. 1,2,4Indian Foundation for Butterflies, C-703, Alpine Pyramid, Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, Bengaluru 560097, Karnataka, India.
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[email protected] Date of issue online: 13 December 2018 Electronic copies (ISSN 2575-9256) in PDF format at: http://journals.fcla.edu/troplep; https://zenodo.org; archived by the Institutional Repository at the University of Florida (IR@UF), http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ufir;DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.2027709 © The author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Abstract: We present a list of 282 species of moths recorded during surveys conducted over 31 survey nights during a 3-year period in Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary (WLS) and Ponmudi, Kerala, India. Shendurney WLS and Ponmudi are part of the Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve in the southern Western Ghats, which is one of India’s three biodiversity hotspots.