Rajendra biguttata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Noctuoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Cladus: Macroheterocera Superfamilia: Noctuoidea

Familia: Erebidae
Subfamilia: Arctiinae
Tribus: Arctiini
Subtribus: Spilosomina
Genus: Rajendra
Species: Rajendra biguttata
Subspecies: R. b. biguttata – R. b. irregularis

Name

Rajendra biguttata (Walker, 1855)

Type locality: Canara,Malabar Coast

Holotype: BMNH. female. 50-26.

Synonyms

• Aloa biguttata Walker, 1855
• Aloa nigricans Moore, 1872
• Rajendra lativitta Moore, 1879
• Rajendra nigricans Cotes & Swinhoe, 1887
• Alphaea biguttata Hampson, 1894
• Alphaea nigricans Hampson, 1894
• Estigmene nigricans Hampson, 1901
• Estigmene perrottetii Hampson, 1901
• Estigmene biguttata Strand, 1919

References

• Cotes, E.C. & Swinhoe, C., 1887-1889 [1887]: A catalogue of the Moths of India 2 Bombyces: 41–255, Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.
• Dubatolov, Vladimir V. , Patrick Haynes & Yasunori Kishida, 2007, Review of the genus Rajendra Moore, with systematic note on the genus Nannoarctia Kôda, Tinea 20 (1): 67–76. [1]
• Hampson, G.F., 1894: The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma II Moths: XXII+609 pp., London.
• Hampson, G., 1901: Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Arctianae) and Agaristidae in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History) 3: XII+609 p., pl. 36-54, London.
• Moore, F., 1872. Descriptions of new Indian Lepidoptera. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1872: 555-583, pls 32-34. Reference page. 
• Moore, F., 1879: Heterocera (Sphingidae-Hepialidae). – P. 5-291, pl. 2-8. In: Hewitson, W. C. & Moore, F., Descriptions of New Indian Lepidopterous Insects from the Collection of the Late Mr. W. S. Atkinson, M.A., F.L.S., &c., Director of Public Instruction, Bengal. – 291 p., 8 pl., Taylor & Francis: London.
• Strand, E., 1919: Arctiidae: subfam. Arctiinae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus 22: 416 S., W.Yunk: Berlin.
• Walker, F., 1855: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 3: 583–775, Edward Newman: London.