Phlogophora striatovirens
Creators: name: Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran
name: Dey, Rushati
name: Bhattacharyya, Kamalika
name: Mallick, Kaushik
name: Mazumder, Arna
name: Gayen, Subrata
name: Das, Moumita
name: Raha, Angshuman
name: Sanyal, Abesh Kumar
name: Kumar, Vikas
name: Uniyal, Virendra Prasad
name: Chandra, Kailash
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Phlogophora
Phlogophora striatovirens

description: <i>Phlogophora striatovirens</i> (Moore, 1867) [Fig. 17, 47, 48] <i>Euplexia striatovirens</i> Moore, 1867, <i>Proc. Zool. Soc.</i>: 58. <i>Euplexia discisignata</i> Moore: Hampson, 1894, <i>Fauna Brit. Ind.,</i> <b>2</b>: 213. <i>Euplexia striatovirens</i> Moore: Hampson, 1908, <i>Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus</i>., <b>7</b>: 233. <i>Phlogophora striatovirens</i> (Moore): Yoshimoto, 1994, <i>in</i> Haruta, <i>Tinea,</i> <b>14</b>: 111. <b>Type locality:</b> Darjeeling [India, West Bengal] <b>Material examined:</b> India: 1 &amp;male;, West Bengal, Dist. Darjeeling, Singalila National Park, Gairibas, 27.05090° N, 088.03360° E, 2494 m, 21. V. 2018; coll. K. Bhattacharyya &amp; team. 1 &amp;female;, Arunachal Pradesh, Dist. Dibang Valley, Dihang Dibang Biosphere Reserve, Anini, Patharnallah, 29.10532° N, 096.08074° E, 2029 m, 19. IV. 2017; 1 &amp;female;, Bruni, 29.15354° N, 096.14857° E, 2436 m, 20. IV. 2017; coll. S. Gayen. <b>Diagnosis:</b> Wing expanse: Male: 28–30 mm, female: 30–32 mm. Although being very distinctive morphologically, it was earlier considered as a junior subjective synonym of <i>P. discisignata</i> by Hampson (1894). In 1908, he treated both the species as different which was confirmed recently as Gyulai <i>et al.</i> (2015) discussed significant differences in morphology between the two species. <i>P. striatovirens</i> differs mainly in the ground colour of forewing being rusty brown to greenish in fresh or live specimens. Presence of a double, sinuous basal line with black inner edge and an antemedial double line with black outer edge; postmedial line double, sinuous, black-edged enclosing the reniform mark which is partly filled with black on inner half; submarginal line pale yellowish-green, highly dentate with a pale patch on its inner edge between veins 7 and 4; marginal area dark purplish fuscous. <b>Male genitalia:</b> Uncus spatulate, valva broad with strongly sclerotised harpe bearing multiple irregular spines; the dorsal margin of sacculus also heavily sclerotised but lacks spines; aedeagus slender, carinal region sclerotised with minute spines; vesica long with small cornuti in the basal part. <b>Distribution: India:</b> Sikkim, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland (Moore 1867; Hampson 1908). <b>Global:</b> Nepal, China (Yoshimoto 1994; Han <i>et al.</i> 2008). <b>Bionomics:</b> Distributed in Central to Eastern Himalaya and North-Eastern Hills, the species was recorded to fly within altitudinal zone of 2000–2500 m, preferably in Temperate and Coniferous forests. Individuals were found to be active in early pre-monsoon months of April–May in a narrow range of average trap night temperature at 9–11 ºC and an annual precipitation range of 1200–2200 mm.
description: Published as part of <i>Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran, Dey, Rushati, Bhattacharyya, Kamalika, Mallick, Kaushik, Mazumder, Arna, Gayen, Subrata, Das, Moumita, Raha, Angshuman, Sanyal, Abesh Kumar, Kumar, Vikas, Uniyal, Virendra Prasad &amp; Chandra, Kailash, 2021, Taxonomy and ecology of genus Phlogophora Treitschke, 1825 (Lepidoptera Noctuidae) in Indian Himalaya with description of a new species, pp. 311-342 in Zootaxa 5004 (2)</i> on pages 330-331, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5004.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5756730
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