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Journal of Threatened Taxa Building evidence for conservaton globally www.threatenedtaxa.org ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Note First records of Agnidra vinacea (Moore, 1879) (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae: Drepaninae) from the western Himalaya, extending its known range westwards Pritha Dey & Sanjay Sondhi 26 March 2019 | Vol. 11 | No. 5 | Pages: 13622–13624 DOI: 10.11609/jot.4593.11.5.13622-13624 For Focus, Scope, Aims, Policies, and Guidelines visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-0 For Artcle Submission Guidelines, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions For Policies against Scientfc Misconduct, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-2 For reprints, contact <[email protected]> The opinions expressed by the authors do not refect the views of the Journal of Threatened Taxa, Wildlife Informaton Liaison Development Society, Zoo Outreach Organizaton, or any of the partners. 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Partner Member Threatened Taxa Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 March 2019 | 11(5): 13622–13624 Note The genus Agnidra Moore, First records of Agnidra vinacea [1868] has an oriental distributon and there are four species of this (Moore, 1879) (Lepidoptera: ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) genus recorded from India tll now; Drepanidae: Drepaninae) from the ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) A. specularia (Walker, 1866), A. western Himalaya, extending its PLATINUM cortcata (Warren, 1922), A. vinacea known range westwards OPEN ACCESS (Moore, 1879) and A. discispilaria (Moore, [1868]) all of them Pritha Dey 1 & Sanjay Sondhi 2 distributed in NE India, Sikkim, Darjeeling (West Bengal) and from 1 Wildlife Insttute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun, Utarakhand, only A. discispilaria has been reported Utarakhand 248002 India. 2 Titli Trust, 49 Rajpur Road Enclave, Dhoran Khas, Dehradun, from the Gangotri Landscape (Sanyal 2015; Uniyal et al. Utarakhand 248001, India. 2016). This paper reports the frst distributon records 2 Indian Foundaton for Buterfies. C-703, Alpine Pyramid, Rajiv A. vinacea Gandhi Nagar, Bengaluru Karnataka 560097, India. of from Utarakhand, western Himalayas. 1 [email protected] (corresponding author), Agnidra vinacea (Moore, 1879) is a member of 2 [email protected] the family Drepanidae, subfamily Drepaninae. It was described as Drepana vinacea by Moore,1879 from Darjeeling, West Bengal. Hampson (1892) lists the the cell. Underside is ochreous-yellow, with indistnct species distributon as “Sikkim”. Subsequently, in a spots at the end of the cell; forewing has a dusky-brown series of publicatons on Indo-Australian Drepanids, fascia from the apex. Forelegs above and the antennae Watson (1961; 1968) lists records of this species from are blackish in colour (Moore 1879). Darjeeling (West Bengal), Khasis (Meghalaya), Naga Hills Discussion: On 15 April 2018 at 21.06h, during an (Nagaland), Pedong (Sikkim) and Kambait (NE Burma). opportunistc visit to Kot Kanasar village, near Chakrata Haruta (1992) reports this species from Nepal, extending in Dehradun District (29.7020N & 79.7340E, 1,682m) SS its range westwards. Digital Moths of Asia (htp://www. recorded the moth species Agnidra vinacea (Moore, jpmoth.org) reports this species from Thailand as well. 1879) at the Kanasar Ecolodge. The moth was sighted on Agnidra vinacea has an ochreous-brown upperside; the wall of the Kanasar Ecolodge, near an incandescent sufused with purple. A narrow black band from the light bulb. Subsequently, PD recorded Agnidra vinacea apex crosses to the middle of the abdominal margin, (Moore, 1879) at Gondi, near Mandal Village (30.0070N which bends indistnctly at the costa. A black streak & 79.0040E, 1,600m) and Kanchula Kharak (30.0070N & extends from apex to below the angle of the band. Both 79.750E, 2,600m) in Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary during fore and hindwing have indistnct transverse sub-basal April-May, 2018. PD did the study by sheet-light method and sub-marginal wavy darker lines and two black- using lepiLED (Brehm 2017) as a part of a study funded speckled grey-bordered spots are there at the end of by the Ruford Foundaton, United Kingdom. Image 1 DOI: htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.4593.11.5.13622-13624 | ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:47AA6271-BA64-4C1F-9C05-F4CA22DC3C46 Editor: Anonymity requested. Date of publicaton: 26 March 2019 (online & print) Manuscript details: #4593 | Received 28 September 2018 | Final received 28 February 2019 Citaton: Dey, P. & S. Sondhi (2019). First records of Agnidra vinacea (Moore, 1879) (Lepidoptera: Drepanidae: Drepaninae) from the western Himalaya, extending its known range westwards. Journal of Threatened Taxa 11(5): 13622–13624. htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.4593.11.5.13622-13624 Copyright: © Dey & Sondhi 2019. Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License. JoTT allows unrestricted use, reproducton, and distributon of this artcle in any medium by adequate credit to the author(s) and the source of publicaton. Funding: The Ruford Foundaton, United Kingdom. Competng interests: The authors declare no competng interests. Acknowledgements: PD is grateful to the Utarkahand Forest Department for giving permissions to carry out the study in Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary and to the forest stafs and ofcials who were supportve on the feld. Thanks goes out to the Ruford Foundaton, United Kingdom for having funded PD’s study in Utarakhand and SS’s study in Arunachal Pradesh. We include a special menton of the young and dynamic Prabhat Singh Bisht who assisted PD throughout the feldwork. SS would like to thank Inder Singh Rana, at whose invitaton, SS stayed at the Kanasar Ecolodge at Chakrata. 13622 Records of Agnidra vinacea from western Himalaya Dey & Sondhi Figure 1. Map showing the diferent locatons of A. vinacea from the literature and recorded by the authors. Image 1. Photos of individuals of A. vinacea recorded by authors at diferent locatons. From eastern Himalaya (a-c): Lama, Bompu (Eaglenest WS); Talle, Pange and from the western Himalayas (new distributon records) (d-f): Gondi, Kanchula Kharak (Kedarnath WLS); Kot Kanasar, Chakrata. © a–c,f - Sanjay Sondhi | d,e - Pritha Dey. shows the individuals photographed from diferent and SS from western Himalayas. locatons in eastern and western Himalayas. Fig. 1 shows The moths of the western Himalayan state of locatons of A. vinacea known from literature, recorded Utarakhand are not well studied and documented. by SS from eastern Himalayas and new records by PD Amongst the earliest publicatons that included Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 March 2019 | 11(5): 13622–13624 13623 Records of Agnidra vinacea from western Himalaya Dey & Sondhi informaton on the moths of Utarakhand was a report Dey, P. (2018). Diversity assessment and molecular characterizaton out on the entomological collecton of the Forest of the Geometridae moths in Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Utarakhand. Doctoral Thesis submited to Saurashtra University. Research Insttute (Roonwal et al. 1963). Subsequently, Hampson, G.F. (1892). The Fauna of Britsh India including Ceylon and Arora et al. (1977) reported on some moths of Garhwal Burma. Moths - Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London, 527pp. Haruta, T. (eds.). (1992). Moths of Nepal, Part 1, Tinea. 13 (Supplement during a Swiss expediton. Arora (1997) reported on 2). Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo, 122pp, 109fgs+32pls. Lepidoptera, including moths during an expediton to Moore, F. (1868). On the Lepidopterous insects of Bengal. Proceedings Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve. Peter Smetacek, Buterfy of the Zoological Society of London, 618pp. Moore, F. (1879). Descriptons of new Indian lepidopterous insects Research Center, Bhimtal published numerous papers from the collecton of late Mr. W.S. Atkinson. The Asiatc Society of on the moths of Nainital (Smetacek 2002; 2004; 2008; Bengal 5–291+II–VIII pls. 2009; 2011). In more recent years, Sanyal et al. (2013; Roonwal, M.L., R.N. Mathur, G.D. Bhasin, P.N. Chaterjee, P.K. Sen- Sarma, B. Singh, A. Chandra, R.S. Thapa & K. Kumar (1963). A 2017), Sanyal (2015), Sondhi & Sondhi (2016), Uniyal systematc catalogue of the main identfed entomological collecton et al. (2016), and Dey (2018) reported on the moths of at the Forest Research Insttute, Dehra Dun. Indian Forest Leafet Utarakhand. Despite these sporadic documentatons, 121(4) Entomology, Part 31 (Lepidoptera): 1295–1395. Sanyal, A.K. (2015). Diversity and distributon of moth assemblages much needs to be studied and understood in the world along alttudinal gradient in Gangotri Landscape, India. Doctoral of moths in Utarakhand, as well as across the country. Thesis submited to Saurashtra University. Smetacek (2002) reported on Drepanid moths from Sanyal, A.K., V.P. Uniyal, K. Chandra & M. Bhardwaj (2013). Diversity, distributon