Mahanta quadrilinea Moore, 1879 -

Taxonomic Information

Mahanta leworthyi, which is extralimital, and can best be told apart by genitalia. Many other extralimital con-geners also best told apart by genitalia.
http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=379309

http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/60_ZYGAENOIDEA/Limacodidae/20_Mahanta/Mahanta%20leworthyi/Mahanta%20leworthyi.htm

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Mahanta quadrilinea -


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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh1
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
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Uttarakhand1
West Bengal
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  1. Moore (1879). Descriptions of new Indian lepidopterous insects from the collection of the late Mr. W.S. Atkinson. Rhopalocera, by William C. Hewitson. Heterocera, by Frederic Moore. With an introductory notice by Arthur Grote. Text at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4824346#page/319/mode/1up 
  2. http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=260946
  3. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 39/30. 
  4. Hampson, G. 1892. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London. Pp. xxiii + 527. Saturniidae to Hypsidae 527 p - 333 fig.  Pg. 401, # 899.    

 

  

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Mahanta quadrilinea Moore, 1879 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.73. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/mahanta-quadrilinea, accessed 2024/04/19.