Indian Journal of Ecology
Web of Science
  • Year: 2024
  • Volume: 51
  • Issue: 4

Moths of superfamily pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) from western ghats (India)

1High Altitude Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Saproon, Solan-173 211, India

National Center for Vector Borne Diseases Control, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Delhi-110 054, India

*E-mail: amitkatewa@gmail.com

Online published on 15 May, 2025.

Abstract

Twenty-three species belonging to twenty-one genera i.e., Nomophila Hübner, Palpita Hübner, Glyphodes Guenée, Botyodes Guenée, Tyspanodes Warren, Dichocrocis Lederer, Agrotera Schrank, Cnaphalocrocis Lederer, Syngamia Guenée, Terastia Guenée, Meroctena Lederer , Polythlipta Lederer of subfamily Spilomelinae; Agathodes Guenée, Phlyctaenia Hübner, Nausinoe Hübner, Syllepte Hübner, Aetholix Lederer, Filodes Guenée, Nevrina Guenée of subfamily Pyraustinae and Nymphula Schrank subfamily Nymphulinae and Eoophila Swinhoe of subfamily Acentropinae of family Crambidae of Superfamily Pyraloidea has been collected from the different localities of Western ghats.

Keywords

India, Lepidoptera, Moths, Pyraloidea, Western ghats