Checklist of the superfamily Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) from Tamil Nadu, Western Ghats, India
2017; Pensoft Publishers; Volume: 13; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês
10.15560/13.6.1101
ISSN1809-127X
AutoresKuppusamy Sivasankaran, Sekar Anand, Pratheesh Mathew, S. Ignacimuthu,
Tópico(s)Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny
ResumoA checklist of the superfamily Noctuoidea (Erebidae, Noctuidae, Euteliidae, and Nolidae) from Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve and Kodaikanal Hills in Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu is presented. We collected noctuoid moths monthly from June 2010 to December 2014. We collected 9095 individuals (5242 males and 3853 females) belonging to 188 species, 106 genera, 5 subtribes, 25 tribes, 26 subfamilies and 4 families. The most species-rich families were Erebidae (106 species) and Noctuidae (51 species). The Erebinae was found to be the richest subfamily with 64 species. Additional sampling might reveal 2–3 times more species.
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