New Record of Indian Moon Moth Actias selene (Hubner, 1807) (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) from Pampoli, East Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh, India
Akhlaq Husain
Zoological Survey of India, 41, Hari Vihar, Vijay Park, Chakrata Road, Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India.
Vipin Kumar Misra
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Pampoli, East Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
Wajid Hasan *
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Jehanabad, Bihar Agricultural University, Bihar, India.
Mahesh Pathak
School of Crop Protection, College of Post Graduate Studies in Agricultural Sciences, Central Agricultural University, Umiam, Meghalaya, India.
A.N. Tripathi
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
PP Tripathi
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Pampoli, East Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The present communication deals with the new record of Actias selene (Hubner, 1807), the Indian Moon Moth, belonging to the family Saturniidae under the order Lepidoptera, from Krishi Vigyan Kendra Campus, Pampoli village in Sappa circle, East Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh (India) with its systematic account, distribution, life cycle and larval host plants.
Keywords: Record, actias selene, pampoli, east kameng, Arunachal Pradesh