A checklist of moths in Bilaspur district, Himachal Pradesh, in the western Himalayan foothills, India

Authors

  • Paul Pop
  • Nivedita Pattanaik
  • Kuldeep Singh Barwal
  • Harminder Pal Singh
  • Puneet Pandey
  • Sanjay Sondhi
  • Randeep Singh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33307/entomon.v49i3.1259

Abstract

In the first ever enumeration of moth diversity of Bilaspur district, Himachal Pradesh, India, located mostly in the Shivalik range, 82 species/morphospecies were reported, at least 22 of which are new records for Himachal Pradesh, and five are new records for Western Himalayas. In addition to a list of moths for the district supplemented with photographs, identification keys for similar species, larval host plants for species, and a near exhaustive dataset of distribution of the species/genera within and outside India are also provided.

Author Biographies

Paul Pop

Zoology Department, Government College Bilaspur, Kosrian Sector, Bilaspur 174001, Himachal Pradesh, India.

Nivedita Pattanaik

Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Ajagara, Varanasi 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Kuldeep Singh Barwal

Zoology Department, Government College Bilaspur, Kosrian Sector, Bilaspur 174001, Himachal Pradesh, India.

Harminder Pal Singh

Department of Environment Studies, Panjab University, Sector 14, Chandigarh 160014, India.

Puneet Pandey

Conservation Genome Resource Bank for Korean Wildlife (CGRB), ResearchInstitute for Veterinary Science and College of Veterinary Medicine, SeoulNational University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Sanjay Sondhi

Titli Trust, 49 Rajpur Road Enclave, Dhoran Khas, near IT Park, P.O. Gujrada, Dehradun 248001, Uttarakhand, India.

Randeep Singh

Amity Institute of Forestry and Wildlife (AIFW), Amity University, Sector 125, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Noida 201313, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Published

2024-09-30

How to Cite

Pop, P., Pattanaik, N., Barwal, K. S., Singh, H. P., Pandey, P., Sondhi, S., & Singh, R. (2024). A checklist of moths in Bilaspur district, Himachal Pradesh, in the western Himalayan foothills, India. ENTOMON, 49(3), 399–416. https://doi.org/10.33307/entomon.v49i3.1259

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Vol. 49 No. 3 (2024)

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