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Arctiid Moths of India, p.133.
Type Loc: Uttarakhand, India.
[Kirti & Singh || Arctiid Moths of India Volume 1: 133]
Genus Gandhara Moore
Moore, 1878; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1878: 15
Type species: Lithosia serva Walker, 1854 (by monotypy)
Diagnosis: Forewings broad with convex costal margin. Males have tuft of androconial scales in the beginning of radial veins on the upper side of forewings. Male genitalia with an ovoid costal process and a hook like ventral process, juxta with apical processes presented as spinules, brush fused with apical parts of the aedeagus.
Remarks: Genus Gandhara Moore, 1878 was erected as a monotypic Genus for its type species Lithosia serva Walker collected from Darjeeling (India). For a long time the Genus remained as a synonym of Genus Lithosia Fabricius or Eilema Hübner. The taxonomic review of Gandhara Moore was done by Dubatolov and Zolotuhin (2011) and Dubatolov (2012). The Genus is known by its type species G. serva (Walker, 1854) from India, Nepal and Gandhara vietnamica Dubatolov, 2012 from Vietnam.
Known species of Genus Gandhara Moore from India: Sole included species.
Gandhara serva (Walker, 1854)
Lithosia serva Walker, 1854; List Spec. Lepid. Ins. Colln. Br. Mus., 2: 506
Forewings grey, the costal yellow fascia narrow towards apex. Hindwings pale yellow.
Male genitalia have the vesica with single apical spine.
Distribution: Uttrakhand.
Larval host plant: Not known
Arctiid Moths of India, p.133.
Type Loc: Uttarakhand, India.
[Kirti & Singh || Arctiid Moths of India Volume 1: 133]
Genus Gandhara Moore
Moore, 1878; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1878: 15
Type species: Lithosia serva Walker, 1854 (by monotypy)
Diagnosis: Forewings broad with convex costal margin. Males have tuft of androconial scales in the beginning of radial veins on the upper side of forewings. Male genitalia with an ovoid costal process and a hook like ventral process, juxta with apical processes presented as spinules, brush fused with apical parts of the aedeagus.
Remarks: Genus Gandhara Moore, 1878 was erected as a monotypic Genus for its type species Lithosia serva Walker collected from Darjeeling (India). For a long time the Genus remained as a synonym of Genus Lithosia Fabricius or Eilema Hübner. The taxonomic review of Gandhara Moore was done by Dubatolov and Zolotuhin (2011) and Dubatolov (2012). The Genus is known by its type species G. serva (Walker, 1854) from India, Nepal and Gandhara vietnamica Dubatolov, 2012 from Vietnam.
Known species of Genus Gandhara Moore from India: Sole included species.
Gandhara serva (Walker, 1854)
Lithosia serva Walker, 1854; List Spec. Lepid. Ins. Colln. Br. Mus., 2: 506
Forewings grey, the costal yellow fascia narrow towards apex. Hindwings pale yellow.
Male genitalia have the vesica with single apical spine.
Distribution: Uttrakhand.
Larval host plant: Not known
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