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Additions to the Known Larval Host Plants of Indian Lepidoptera JoTT NOTE 3(12): 2272–2276 Additions to the known larval host larvae in various instars from plants of Indian Lepidoptera forests in Nainital District between 1200m and 2400m elevation. The Peter Smetacek 1 & Rajni Smetacek 2 places visited were mainly in the Bhimtal and Sattal valleys (1200–1500 m), the 1,2 The Butterfly Research Centre, The Retreat, Jones Estate, P.O.Bhimtal, District Nainital, Uttarakhand 263136 India Bhowali Valley (1600m), the Gagar pass (2400m), Email: 1 [email protected] (corresponding author); Maheshkhan forest (2200m) and Rata forest (2200m) 2 [email protected] at all seasons, opportunistically over a period of 20 years but focussed on Maheshkhan, Gagar and Rata The larval host plants of some families of Indian forests during 2008 to 2009. All the above mentioned Lepidoptera such as the Papilionidae, Saturniidae and locations are within a 50-km radius of Bhimtal. Since Sphingidae are relatively well known (Bell & Scott the same species was often encountered in different 1937; Robinson et al. 2001). Information on most of locations within the district, we have refrained from the other families is quite incomplete. giving exact locations in the list. Voucher specimens The present list consists largely of species bred of the material bred are in the authors’ personal by the authors at Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal, collection at the above address. Nainital District, Uttarakhand, India in the Kumaon In addition, an invitation to the Forest Research Himalaya west of Nepal (29020’41”N & 79030’17”E). Institute in Dehra Dun to the senior author resulted Most of the species recorded were obtained as wild in the identification of a number of moths that had lain unidentified in the Indian National Forest Insect Collection since the 1930s. Several of these had been Date of publication (online): 26 December 2011 Date of publication (print): 26 December 2011 bred in different parts of India and Burma and the ISSN 0974-7907 (online) | 0974-7893 (print) localities on their data labels are mentioned in this list. Editor: George Mathew It should be noted that the names of several localities have changed during the intervening 80 years. The Manuscript details: Ms # o2745 original names on the data labels have been noted so Received 03 April 2011 Final received 15 November 2011 as to facilitate reference to these specimens, while Finally accepted 22 November 2011 the currently valid names have been mentioned in Citation: Smetacek, P. & R. Smetacek (2011). Additions to the known parenthesis. Similarly, names of plants on which larval host plants of Indian Lepidoptera. Journal of Threatened Taxa 3(12): 2272–2276. the Lepidoptera were bred are, in many cases, not currently valid. Nevertheless, these have been Copyright: © Peter Smetacek & Rajni Smetacek 2011. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. JoTT allows unrestricted use of this article mentioned as noted on the original data labels and in any medium for non-profit purposes, reproduction and distribution by providing adequate credit to the authors and the source of publication. the current botanical names included in parenthesis. In one case (Pseudomicronia coelata Moore), it was Acknowledgements: We are indebted to the following persons and institu- tions, without whose help this work would have been impossible: the Head not possible to discover the author or family of the and staff of the Dept. of Forest Entomology, Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, India for permission to work on the collection in their care and plant name mentioned on the data label, yet this name to publish records; the Chief Conservator of Forests, Jammu and Kashmir, for kind permission to one of us (PS) to work on hawkmoths around Leh, has been included in the hope that others are more Ladakh and the Wildlife Warden and personnel of the Jammu and Kashmir fortuitous than the present authors. In another case, Forest Department for their generous help there; Professor Emeritus Y.P.S. Pangtey of the Botany Department, D.S.B. College, Nainital, India for iden- (Nephele hespera Fabricius) it was not possible to tifying plants and clearing several taxonomic problems of a botanic nature; Dr. Wolfgang Speidel of the Museum Witt, Munich, Germany for identifying locate the authority for the species of plant (Carissa some Noctuids.; Dr. Wolfgang Nässig, Forschingsinstitut und Naturmuseum affinarium) mentioned on the moth’s data label, so this Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, for literature; Professor L.W.R. Kobes, Heterocera Sumatrana Society, Göttingen, Germany, for confirming name has been listed as such. All specimens in the the identity of Gabala roseoretis, Dr. I.J. Kitching, N.H.M., London, U.K. for identifying some species and advice on the placement and arrangement Forest Research Institute have been distinguished by of the taxa; Manoj Chandran, I.F.S. for breeding Cleora reciprocaria, pho- an asterisk in the following list. tographs of the early stages of Acytolepis puspa on Quercus and breeding notes on the Sesia sp.; and especially the Rufford Small Grant Foundation, The Sypnini (Erebidae) do not seem to have a U.K. for financing this work. subfamily placement yet (I.J. Kitching pers. comm.) OPEN ACCESS | FREE DOWNLOAD so it has been placed as a Tribe in the Erebidae. 2272 Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | December 2011 | 3(12): 2272–2276 Larval host plants of Lepidoptera P. Smetacek & R. Smetacek In addition, there are eight records, one each by Zygaeniidae Antram (1924), Bailey (1951) and Troup (1899), two *Gynautocera papilionaria Guérin- by Mackinnon & de Nicéville (1897–1898) and three Menéville:”Litsea polyantha” = Litsea monopetala by Wynter-Blyth (1957) that appear to have been (Roxb.) Pers. (Lauraceae) Dehra Dun. overlooked by subsequent authors, notably Robinson Soritia leptalina Kollar: Bridelia montana (Roxb.) et al. (2001). These have been included in this list. Willd. (Euphorbiaceae); Rubus ellipticus Smith (Rosaceae). Systematic section Psychiidae Pyralidae *Eumeta Walker sp.: seeds of Pinus wallichiana Heterocrasa expansalis Warren: Quercus A.B. Jackson (= Pinus excelsa Walich ex D. Don) leucotrichophora A Camus (Fagaceae). (Pinaceae), Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. Drepanidae Tortricidae Drepaninae Archips machlopis Meyrick: Neolitsea umbrosa Callidrepana argenteola Moore: Rhus wallichi (Nees) Gamble (Lauraceae). Hook. F. (Anacardiaceae). Deroca hyalina Walker: Benthamidia capitata Sesiidae (Wallich) Hara (Cornaceae). Sesia Fabricius sp.: bark of Phyllanthus emblica L. Deroca inconclusa Walker: Benthamidia capitata (Euphorbiaceae). (Wallich) Hara (Cornaceae). Drepana near quinaria Moore: Alnus nepalensis Limacodidae D. Don (Betulaceae). *Parasa lepida Cramer: Strychnos nux-vomica L. Oreta extensa Walker: Swida oblonga (Wallich) (Moraceae), Dehra Dun. Soják (Cornaceae). *Miresa albipuncta Herrich-Schäffer: “Dicopyros melanoxylum” = Diopyros exsculpta Buch.-Ham. Bombycidae (Ebenaceae), Hoshangabad, C.P. (=Hoshangabad, Penicillifera lactea Hutton: Ficus neriifolia var. Madhya Pradesh). nemoralis (Wall. Ex Miq.) Corner (Moraceae). *Cania himalayana Holloway: Bombax ceiba L. (Bombacaceae), Dehra Dun. Saturniidae *Cheromettia apicata Moore: Terminalia belerica Actias selene Hübner: Symplocos chinensis (Lour.) (Gaertn.) Roxb. (Combretaceae); Litchi chinensis Druce (Symplocaceae). Sonnerat (Sapindaceae), both Dehra Dun. Samia canningii Hutton: Zanthoxylum armatum *Aphendala cana Walker: Citrus L. (Rutaceae), DC (Rutaceae). Dehra Dun. *Narosa conspersa Walker: Desmodium triquetrum Sphingidae (L.) DC (Fabaceae), Coorg Titthimatti (=Titthimatti, *Ambulyx liturata Butler: Shorea robusta Gaertn. Kodagu District, Karnataka). (Dipterocarpaceae), Dehra Dun. *Altha subnotata Swinhoe: “Terminalia tomentosa” *Clanis phalaris Cramer: Ficus benghalensis L. = Terminalia alata Heyne ex Roth (Combretaceae); (Moraceae), Salem, Tamil Nadu. Citrus L. (Rutaceae); Shorea robusta Gaertn. Polyptychus trilineatus Moore: Terminalia chebula (Dipterocarpaceae), all Dehra Dun. Retz. (Combretaceae), Dehra Dun. (included in *Chalcoscelides castaneipars Moore: “Cinchona” Robinson et al. (2001) with an interrogation mark.). = ? Cinchona officinalis L. (Rubiaceae) Darjeeling, *Nephele hespera Fabricius: “Carissa West Bengal. affinarium”?? *Scopelodes ursina Butler: “Aleurites montana” Psilogramma menephron Cramer:Tecomaria = Vernicia montana Lour. (Euphorbiaceae) Lashio, capensis (Lindl.) Spach. (Bignoniaceae). Burma. Hyles gallii Rottemburg: Euphorbia stracheyi Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | December 2011 | 3(12): 2272–2276 2273 Larval host plants of Lepidoptera P. Smetacek & R. Smetacek Boiss. (Euphorbiaceae), Leh, Ladakh, Jammu & Geometridae Kashmir. Ennominae: Orthostixini Hyles nicaea lathyrus Walker: Euphorbia stracheyi Naxa textilis form huegeli Felder: Osmanthus Boiss. (Euphorbiaceae), Leh, Ladakh, Jammu & fragrans Lour. (Oleaceae) (vide Troup (1899)), Kashmir. Kausani, Uttarakhand. *Macroglossum bombylans Boisduval:”Terminalia tomentosa” = Terminalia alata Heyne ex Roth Ennominae (Combretaceae), Dehra Dun. Psyra spurcataria Walker: Rosa L. (Rosaceae). *Cephonodes hylas Linnaeus: Xeromphis spinosa Cleora reciprocaria Walker: Sapindus mukorossi (Thunb.) Keay (Rubiaceae), Paonta, Himachal Gaertn. (Sapidaceae). Pradesh. Cleora repulsaria Walker: Bauhinia vareigata L. (Caesalpinaceae). Lasiocampidae Ectropis crepuscularia Hübner: Glochidion Trabala vishnou Lef.: Coriaria nepalensis Wallich heyneanum (Wight & Arn.) Wight
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