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The Tigermoths (Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) of Papua Indonesia
by Rob de Vos
Nyctemera (Deilemera) evergista (Stoll, 1782)
[Phalaena Geometra evergista Stoll, 1782] (type: Ambon, not located)
ssp. agagles Boisduval, 1832 [Leptosoma agagles] (holotype (type: Offack, Waigeo, in BMNH)
Leptosoma aeres Boisduval, 1832 (in part) (syntypes (type: Offack, Waigeo & "New Guinea", not located)
ssp. uniplaga Swinhoe, 1903 [Deilemera uniplaga] (holotype (type: Fergusson Island, PNG, in BMNH)
Distribution
STATUS: ssp. agagles (red dots) rather rare, in the Arfak Mountains locally abundant; ssp. uniplaga (blue dots) rare in Papua, in Papua New Guinea more abundant.
PAPUA LOCALITIES: ssp. agagles: Waigeo: Offack; New Guinea: Andai, Arfak Mountains, Demaisi, Fakfak, Manokwari, Mokwam, Ninay Valley, Ngat Biep, Timeepa, Wandammen Peninsula. ssp. uniplaga: New Guinea: Genyem, Lelambo, Nipsan, Sentani, Taja, Walmak, Waris. Details in gazetteer.
EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: ssp. evergista: Central Moluccas on the islands of Ambon, Saparua, Seram, Goram and Buru; ssp. uniplaga: Central and East New Guinea, Fergusson Island and Goodenough Island; ssp. bismarckiana De Vos, 2002: Bismarck Archipelago.
DATA SOURCES: ssp. agagles: BMNH, CKC, KSP, ZMAN; ssp. uniplaga: BPBM, CKC, RMNH, ZMAN. Literature (see below).
Literature refering to Papua records
Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de, 1832. Voyage de decouvertes de l'Astrolabe, execute par ordre du Roi, pendant les annees 1826-1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune Entomologique de l'Ocean Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. Premiere Partie. Lepidopteres: 267 pp., J. Tastu, Paris.
Bryk, F., 1937. Lepidopterorum Catalogus, 82: Arctiidae, Subfam.: Callimorphinae et Nyctemerinae: 1-105, W. Junk, ’s-Gravenhage.
Felder, C., 1861. Lepidopterorum Amboinensium a Dre. L. Doleschall annis 1856-58 collectorum species novae. Sitzungsberichte Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 43(1): 26-44.
Kirby, W.F., 1892. A synonymic catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera (Moths). Vol I. Sphinges and Bombyces: 951 pp., Gurney & Jackson, London and Friedländer & son, Berlin.
Pagenstecher, A., 1901. Über die Gattung Nyctemera Hübn. und Ihre Verwandten. Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 54: 91-175.
Roepke, W., 1957. The Genus Nyctemera Huebner II. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 100(2): 147-178.
Seitz, A., 1915. VI. Subfamilie: Callimorphinae & VII. Subfamilie: Nyctemerinae. In: A. Seitz (ed.). Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 10: Spinner und Schwärmer des Indo-Australischen Gebiets: 264-290, A. Kernen, Stuttgart.
Swinhoe, C., 1903. On the Genus Deilemera Hübner The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1903: 53-85.
Vos, R. de, 2002. Revision of the Nyctemera evergista group (= subgenus Deilemera Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae, Arctiinae, Nyctemerini). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo 23(1/2): 7-32.
Walker, F., 1854. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, II. Lepidoptera Heterocera: 279-581, Trustees British Museum, London.
Zamesov, A.N. & O.G. Gorbunov, 2014. To the knowledge of Macroheterocera of Southeast Asia and New Guinea. III. Tiger moths (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Arctiinae) of Papua Province, Indonesia. Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea 2: 437-448.
