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Melittia phorcus

  • 1. Lepidoptera Section, Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, West Bengal, India & jalilahmad 23046 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7719 - 864 X
  • 2. Lepidoptera Section, Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, West Bengal, India & joshiarctiidae @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8514 - 1272
  • 3. Lepidoptera Section, Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, West Bengal, India & nsgill 007 @ gmail. com https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6657 - 7983

Description

58. Melittia phorcus (Westwood, 1848: 62)

Trochilium

Type locality: Central India [India].

Distribution in India: Central India. Global records: Sri Lanka (Arita & Gorbunov 1995).

Notes

Published as part of Ahmad, Jalil, Joshi, Rahul & Singh, Navneet, 2023, An updated Catalogue of Cossoidea (Lepidoptera) from India, pp. 301-348 in Zootaxa 5330 (3) on page 332, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8254738

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Sesiidae
Genus
Melittia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Westwood
Species
phorcus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Melittia phorcus (Westwood, 1848) sec. Ahmad, Joshi & Singh, 2023

References

  • Westwood, J. O. (1848) The Cabinet of Oriental Entomology; being A Selection of some of the rarer and more beautiful Species of Insects, Natives of India and the adjacent Islands, the greater portion of which are now for the first time described and figured. William Smith, London, 88 pp., 42 pls. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 34273