Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology

S. Sambath ¹

Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India, Gangetic Plains Regional Centre Patna, Bihar, IN

Abstract

Family Zygaenidae comprises moths commonly called Burnet Forestor moths, or smoky moths. They are typically diurnal or crepuscular in wings with a slow fluttering flight. They have rather clubbed antennae and have metallic sheen with prominent spots of red or yellow. Lefroy and Howlett (1971) described the Batesian mimicry shown by some species of these moths, and they also secrete their own toxin throughout all stages of their life-cycle rather than obtaining from host plants.

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P. M. Sureshan ¹, S. Sambath ¹

Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India, Gangetic Plains Regional Centre, Rajendra Nagar, Patna, Bihar 800 016, IN

Abstract

In continuation of the recent compilation on the mantid fauna of old Bihar (present Bihar and Jharkhand states) (Sureshan & Sambath, in press), the present paper deals with the discovery of the species Deiphobe incisa Werner for the first time from Jharkhand, India. The genus Deiphobe Stal, 1877 belongs to the tribe Miomantini of subfamily Mantinae and family Mantidae.

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