Nannoarctia himalayana is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov, Patrick G. Haynes and Yasunori Kishida in 2010. It is found in Nepal and India.[1]
Nannoarctia himalayana | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Genus: | Nannoarctia |
Species: | N. himalayana
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Binomial name | |
Nannoarctia himalayana Dubatolov, Haynes & Kishida, 2010
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The length of the forewings is 17–17.5 mm for subspecies himalayana and 16–18 mm for subspecies nepalica.
Subspecies
edit- Nannoarctia himalayana himalayana (India: Himachal Pradesh and probably Kashmir)
- Nannoarctia himalayana nepalica Dubatolov, Haynes & Kishida, 2010 (Nepal and India: Uttar Pradesh, Assam and probably Nagaland)
References
edit- ^ Dubatolov, Vladimir V. & Kishida, Yasunori (December 2010). "Review of the genus Nannoarctia Kôda, s. str. (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae)" (PDF). Tinea. 21 (3): 136–152.