Mustilia falcipennis Walker, 1865 -

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Mustilia falcipennis -


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  1. OD: Mustilia falcipennis Walker, 1865. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 32: 581. Text at https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso3132brit/page/581/mode/1up?view=theater
  2. Hampson, G. F. [1893]. 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.# 44, pg. 39.
  3. Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1992. Moths of Nepal. Part 1. TINEA. Vol. 13 (Supplement 2). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 20/16 
  4. Zolotuhin, V.V. 2007. A revision of the genus Mustilia Walker, 1865, with descriptions of new taxa (Lepidoptera, Bombycidae). Neue Entomologischen Nachrichten, 60: 187-205.
  5. Wang, X., Wang, M., Zolotuhin, V.V., Hirowatari, T., Wu, S. and Huang, G.H., 2015. The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands. Zootaxa, 3989(1), pp.1-138. Pg. 99, Fig. 8-A,B,C. 
  6. http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=297997
 Note: Hindwing costa colour not visible; hence provisionally identified. 

Page citation

Anonymous 2023. Mustilia falcipennis Walker, 1865 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.42. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/mustilia-falcipennis, accessed 2023/03/25.