ITANAGAR: Researchers have found out a brand new species of moth from the Talle Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh.
The discovery of the Zygaenid moth was published within the Journal of Threatened Taxa, a global magazine on conservation and taxonomy, on December 26 last year.
The article was published by Bombay Natural History Society scientist Monsoon Jyoti Gogoi and famend lepidoptera (find out about of butterflies and moths) expert J J Young, and state training division employee Punyo Chada.
"During a field trip to Talle Wildlife Sanctuary we colleted a torn, deformed moth found to be an undescribed female Elcysma, at an elevation of 1,700m in Ziro. This discovery represents the first record of Elcysma from Arunachal Pradesh," the researchers said.
They steered that the brand new species, scientifically named Elcysma Ziroensis, be commonly referred to as Apatani Glory, named after a local tribe referred to as Apatani.
This species has handiest been observed all the way through autumn, notably within the month of September, indicating that this can be a univoltine species, that means it has one brood of young in a year.
The discovery of the Zygaenid moth was published within the Journal of Threatened Taxa, a global magazine on conservation and taxonomy, on December 26 last year.
The article was published by Bombay Natural History Society scientist Monsoon Jyoti Gogoi and famend lepidoptera (find out about of butterflies and moths) expert J J Young, and state training division employee Punyo Chada.
"During a field trip to Talle Wildlife Sanctuary we colleted a torn, deformed moth found to be an undescribed female Elcysma, at an elevation of 1,700m in Ziro. This discovery represents the first record of Elcysma from Arunachal Pradesh," the researchers said.
They steered that the brand new species, scientifically named Elcysma Ziroensis, be commonly referred to as Apatani Glory, named after a local tribe referred to as Apatani.
This species has handiest been observed all the way through autumn, notably within the month of September, indicating that this can be a univoltine species, that means it has one brood of young in a year.
New moth species discovered in Arunachal Pradesh
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