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Erebus ephesperis

Description

Erebus ephesperis (Hübner, [1823])

Nyctipao laetitia Butler 1879: 9.

Erebus niasana Swinhoe 1918: 85.

Erebus malanga Swinhoe 1918: 86.

Material examined. Table 3.

Remarks. This species sexes are limited different, both sexes having an equally mottled brown pattern to the wings. However the males tend to be somewhat more intensely variegated with a deep buff distal edging to the medial line.

Notes

Published as part of Sivasankaran, Kuppusamy, Anand, Sekar, Mathew, Pratheesh & Ignacimuthu, Savarimuthu, 2017, Checklist of the superfamily Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) from Tamil Nadu, Western Ghats, India, pp. 1101-1120 in Check List 13 (6) on page 1113, DOI: 10.15560/13.6.1101

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References

  • Swinhoe C (1918) New species of Indo-Malayan Heterocera, and descriptions of genitalia, with reference to the geographical distri- bution of species resembling each other. The Annals Magazine of Natural History (ser. 9) 2: 65 - 95.