oe TSS eT NEWSLETTER this issue. Kolkata, the City of Jy’ has been praised a a symbol of development of culture © EDITORIAL 1 that fused European philosophies with Indian tradition, The city is also noted forts Jong revolutionary history of events ranging from the leading struggles for independence tothe various trade-union movements and industalization. Kolkata hasalso madeits unique contribution o Indian ar, cinema and linguistic eure. Daring the carly 19th century Kolkata’ received large scale industrial investments from the British and Tater fom Indian businessmen in various industries Tike jute, textiles, chemicals, heavy engineering, cement, pharmaceuticals, food-processing leather and metallurgical supplies. As a result, Kotkata was revognizedas Asia's most important commercial and industrial hub and became te third largest metropolitan area in Indianextto Delhi and Mumbai © Mots orotate ike other urban areas, Kolkata has had its own characteristic population growth rate which showed Metropolitan Region the peak inthe decade of 1930s with an increase of 69%. The population growth, however, dropped ae 29% during the 1940s, but continued at 20% or more until 2001 and soon Urbanization, allover the world, sa symbol of development and novelty of ety life. But in other 2) way.itcanbe said hat, urbanization process, which produces anthropogenic habitats, affects biodiversity invarious ways ‘One recent survey found that Kolkatais home torch of mammals birds, reptiles insets and over f 67 species of laut, The fist official study on Kolkata's biodiversity was conducted by a city-based { NGO, the Society for Environment and Development, on behalf of the West Bengal Biodiversity Board (WBBB), However, Kolkata did not havea people-biodivesiy register (PBR). The survey was. start to } ‘make sue tha he flora and fauna are important and not tbe forgotten completely, andthe knowledge of ales [odie aleady inbeiting oa oes cx lp tsa thers The doctneaston of lodivec Teast the conservation of urban ecosystem which depends largely on how th city dwellers shape their home's © Longhom Beetles fare (Cermyeide: Coeot) “The ENVIS Newsletr of ZSI has cried out the responsiblity of his kind of documentation by a listing some specifi invertebrate fauna like Moths and Longhorn betes of Kolkala. The presence of ‘mars ards, these axa eriches the biodiversity senario with ther majo faunal components ‘I Dr: Kailash Chandra Director ‘Shri Hem Pande, Hontble Special Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Indi awarded the winner of “Sit and Draw" compestion| ‘conducted by ENVIS-ZSI in ocasion of Word Wetland Day observation on February 2, 2016 at Gosab, SunderbanVIS PROJECT DIRECTOR Dr. Kailash Chandra ENVIS EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Dr. K. C. Gopi Scientist-F ENVIS TEAM Dr. Bulganin Mitra Coordinator Sh. Amitava Roy Sr, Statistical Assistant Dr. Kuladeep Roy Programme Officer Sh, Mridul Purakayastha TT Assistant (Data Entry) Sh. Bappaditya Samanta IT Assistant DISCLAIMER All efforts have been made to make the information as accurate as possible. The views expressed by the authors in the articles published in the ENVIS Newsletter are their own. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the Government or the organizations they work for. The ENVIS Centre, Zoological Survey of India does not warrant that the information contained is complete and correct and is no way responsible for any liability arising out of the contents / texts of these articles. Any discrepancy found may be brought to the notice of ENVIS Centre, ZSI. Moths of Kolkata Metropolitan Region Suresh Kr, Shah, Bulganin Mirai, Kaushik Malliek®, Malyasri Bhattacharya? * Zoological Survey of India, M- Block, New Alipore, Kelkat- 700053 ?P.G. Department of Zoology, Asutosh College, Kolkata-700026 "Email: shahs76@ymail.com INTRODUCTION ‘The Kolkata Metropolitan Region (KMR) consists of the city Kolkata and parts of the districts of North 24 Parganas, South 24 Paraganas, Howrah, Hooghly and Nadia. It occupies an area of 1886.67 sq. km. The KMR is the largest urban area in Eastern India covering 3 Municipal Corporations including Kolkata Municipal Corporation, 39 Municipalities and 24 Panchayat Samitis.. Kolkata has tropical wet and dry climate. The annual mean temperature remains around 28.3 degree Celsius with average relative humidity varies between 47% 83%.The annual rainfall is about 1580 mm. ‘Topographically the land of KMR slopes down from the west to the east, The KMR stretches about 85 km in the north south direction. The flora and fauna found along the river banks of the Hooghly river plays vital roles in ecosystems conservation. Moths are mostly night flying and herbivorous insects belonging to the order Lepidoptera. These insects have great economic importance being host specific and pests of almost all types of vegetation. They are considered as valuable insects because of their vital ecosystem services such as pollination of night blooming flowers. They also have important role in sustaining ecosystem being acting as prey and predator in a food ct in, In biological researches, moth species are often taken upas ecological indicator. Studies of moth fauna of West Bengal in recent past have been undertaken by Ghosh and Chowdhury (1997), Mandal and Ghosh (1997), Bhattacharya (1997) and Mandal and Maulik (1997). They have significantly contributed to the study of moth fauna from different districts of West Bengal after the earlier works undertaken by Sevastopulo (1945 and 1956), Cotes (1887-1889) and Hampson (1892 and 1894-1896). Very recently, Sanyal etal, (2012) published 710 species of moths belonging to 16 families from the state of West Bengal by compiling the previous records. However, the moth fauna of KMR in particular is not yet documented. The present study aims to provide the preliminary list of moth species, of KMR based on available published records and collections and observations, ‘made during field studies between 2012-2014. A total of 198 species have been recorded after reviewing the published records and examining our own 31 specimens of moths’ collection from different sites of KMR (Figure 1). The species marked with asterisk (*) in the species list provided represents new distribution record from KMR. The collected and duly identified specimens have been deposited in the National Zoological Collections of Zoological Survey of India, KolkataOT RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS Altogether 198 species under 142 genera belonging to 10 families were recorded (Table 1). The percentages (rounded- offto whole numbers) of number of species distributed to the families are shown in Fig. 2 It is evident from results that highest number of species belong to the family Crambidae, followed by Erebidae, Sphingidae, Geometridae, Pyralidae, Noctuidae, Lasiocampidae and Zygaenidae (each with same number of species), Satumniidae and Elachistidae. Sixteen species marked with asterisk (*) in species list (Annexure 1) have been reported for the first time in the vicinity of KMR. During this study, moths were collected from only few locations of KMR. The study analysed a good number of moth species which constitutes sixteen percent of the known fauna of West Bengal. The results, provide baseline information on the diversity of moth fauna of KMR. Further studies should investigate to add up more sand the response of moths to different levels of disturbances, such as change of land use pattern, Annexure 1. List of moth species recorded from KMR. Order: LEPIDOPTERA Family: ZYGAENIDAE Balataea postvitta Moore,1879 Gynautocera papilionaria Guerin, 1831 Inope ftliginosa Moore, 1879 Thyrassia subcordata Walker, 1854 Trypanophora semihyalina Kollar, 1844 Family: SATURNIIDAE Actias selene Huebner, 1806 Antheraea paphia Linnaeus, 758 8. Cricula trifenestrata Helfer, 1837 Family: NOCTUIDAE 9. *Artena dotata (Fabricius,1794) 10. Asota alciphron Cramer,1777 11, Asota ficus Fabricius,1775 12. *Chrysodeixis eriosoma Doubleday, 1843 1. 2. 3 4. 5. 13. *Eudocimasp. 1, Map showing Study Sites under Kolkata Metropolitan Region Table-1, Moth diversity in KMR eu Family Genera | Species 1. | 2yguenidae 5 5 2, | Satunidae 3 3 3. | Noctidas 9 10 4. | Geometridae 2 15, 5. | Sphingidae 16 23 6. | Lasiocempidae 5 5 7. | Brebidee 25 41 8. | Crambidae 56 83 wyesnidse mSstumisse mNocuidae mGsometrdse_ Sohn 9. | Blachistidae 1 1 Aascampide mreiéne Crm fetichistdoe Pyraiése 10. | Pyralidae 10 2 “Total 1, 198 2. Percentages of moths recorded from KMR14, 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21 22, 23. 24, 25 26. 20. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34, 35 36. 37. 38, 39. 40. 4. 42. 43. 44. 4s. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50, 51 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58, *Ophiusa coronata Fabricius,1775 *Othreis sp. *Pseudaletia unipuncta Haworth, 1809 *Spodoptera litura Fabricius,1775 “Thyas honesta Hubner,1806 Family : GEOMETRIDAE Agathia lycaenaria Kollar, 1844 *Ascotis sp. Epipristis minimaria Guence,1857 Gelasma goniaria Feloler, 1875 *Pelagodes sp. Problepsis vulgaris Butler, 889 Scopula actuaria Walker, 1861 Scopulaaspilataria Walker, 1861 Scopula pulchellata Fabricius,1794 Scopula remotata Guence,1858 Scopulasp. ‘Semiothisa pluviata Fabricis,1795 *Thalassodes quadraria (Guence,1857) Timandra convectaria Walker,1861 Tramindasp. Warren, 1895 Family : SPHINGIDAE Acherontia lachesis Fabticius,1798 Acherontia styx Westwood, 1844 Acosmeryx naga Moore, 1857 Agrius convolvuli Linnacus,1758 Ambulyx substrigilis Westwood, 1848 Callambulyx rubricosa Walker, 1856 Cephonodes hylas Linnaeus,171 Daphnis hypothous Cramer, 1780 Daphnis nerii Linnaeus,1758 Eupana cramydon Walket, 1856 Gurelea hyas Walker, 1856 Leucophlebia lineata Westwood,1848 Macroglossum assimilis Swainson, 1821 Macroglossum glaucoptera Butler, 1875 ‘Meganoton analis Felder, 1874 Nephele didyma Fabricius,1775 Psilogramma menephron Cramer,1780 Sataspes infernalis Westwood, 1848 Theretraalecto alecto Linnaeus, 758 Theretra clotho clotho Drary,1773, Theretranessus Drury,1773 Theretra pinastrina Martyn,1797 *Theretrasithetensis (Walket, 1856) Family: LASIOSCAMPIDAE Dendrolimus latipenis Walker, 855 ‘Metanastria hyrtaca Cramet,1782 59. Streblote dorsalis Walker, 866 60. Streblote siva Lefebvre,1827 61. Trabala vishnou Lefebvre, 1827 Family: EREBIDAE 62. Agylla ramelana Moore,1900 63. Amata bicincta Kollar,1844 64. Amatacyssea Stoll, 1782 65. Amata hydatina Butler,1876 66. Amata insueta Swinhoe, 1892 67. Amata lucina Butler, 876 68. Amatapassalis (Fabricius, 1781) 69. Arctornissubmarginata Walker, 1855 70. Aroa ochracea Moore,1879 71, Aroasocrus Geyer,1837 72. Asura congerens Felder, 1874 73. Asura obsoleta (Moore,1878) 74, Caeneressa diaphana Kollar,1844 78. Ceryx godartii Boisduval,1829 76. Ceryximaon Cramer,1780 11. Chrysorabdia viridata (Walker, 1865) 78. Creatonotos gangis Linnaeus, 1763 79. Eilema vicaria Walker, 1864 80. Eressa confinis Walker, 1854 81. Euproctis ampala walker, 1855 82, Euproctis asoetria Hubner, 818 83. Euproctis digramma Guerin, 1829 84, Buproctis howra Moore,1879 85, Buproctis lunata Walker, 855 86, Euproctis plana Fawcett,1915 87. Euproctis similis Moore, 1879 88, Euproctis subfasciata Walker, 1865 89. Eurosia annulata Hampson,1900 90. Lymantriades varians Walker, 855, 91. Miltochrista radians Moore, 1878 92. Narosodes punctana Walker,1863 93. Nishada flabifera Moore,1878 94. Orgyia australis Walker, 1855 95. Pantana visum Hubner, 1825 96. *Pericallia ricini (Fabricius,1794) 97. Perina nuda Fabricius,1787 98. Perina pura Walker, 1869 99. Psichotoe duvauceli Boisduval,1829 100. Ranghana punctata Moore,1878 101. Somena scintillans Walker, 1856 102. Tigrioides fulveola Hampson, 1900 Family : CRAMBIDAE 103. Aethaloessa floridalis Zeller , 1852 104, Agathodes ostentalis Geyer , 1837[aD 105. 106. 107. 108. 109. 110, UL 112, 113. 114, 115 16. 117, 118, 119, 120. 121. 122. 123 124. 125. 126. 127. 128, 129. 130. 131 132. 133. 134, 135. 136. 137. 138, 139, 140. 141 142. 143. 144, 145. 146. 147. 148. 149, 150. 151. 152. TEA Agrotera basinotata Hampson 1891 Analyta melanopalis Guenee , 1854 Analyta sigulalis Guenee , 1854 Ancylolomia chrysographella (Kollar , 1844) Antigastra catalaunalis Duponchel , 1833 Archernis tropicalis Walker , 1859 Arthroschista hilaralis Walker , 1859 Autocharis fessalis Swinhoe , 1887 Bocchoris acamasalis Walker , 1859 Botyodes asialis Guenee , 1854 . Botyodes flavibasalis Moore , 1867 Bradina admixtalis Walker , 1859 Ceratarcha umbrosa Swinhoe , 1894 *Chilo sp. Cirrhochrista brizoalis Walker , 1859 Cnaphalocrocis medinalis Guenee , 1854 *Cnaphalocrocis pauperalis Strand,1918 Cnaphalocrocis trapezalis Guenee , 1854 Cnaphalocrocis trebiusalis Walker , 1859 Cnaphalocrocis venilialis Walker , 1859 Crocidolomia binotalis Zeller , 1852 Cryptographis indica Saunders , 1851 Cydalima laticostalis Guenee , 1854 Dichocrocis evaxalis Walker , 1859 Dysallacta negatalis Walker , 1859 Ercta elutalis Walker, 1859 Euclasta defamatalis Walker , 1859 Eurrhyparodes bracteolalis Zeller, 1852 Eurrhyparodes tricoloralis Zeller, 1852 Glyphodes bicolor Swainson , 1821 Glyphodes bivitralis Guenee, 1854 Glyphodes caesalis Walker, 1859 Glyphodes canthusalis Walker, 1859 Glyphodes pyloalis Walker, 1859 Glyphodes sp. Glyphodes stolalis Guenee, 1854 Herpetogramma licarsisalis Walker, 1859 Herpetogrammasp. Hyalobathra filalis Guenee, 1854 Hydriris ornatalis Duponchel, 1832 Hydrorybina bicolor Moore, 1888 Hymenoptychis sordida Zeller, 1852 Lepyrodes geometralis (Guenee , 1854) Leucinodes apicalis Hampson 1896 Leucinodes orbonalis Guenee, 1854 Loxoneptera albicostalis Swinhoe , 1906 Maruca testulalis Geyer, 1832 *Maruca vitrata Fabricius,1787 153. 154, 155. 156. 157. 158, 159, 160. 161 162. 163. 164. 165. 166. 167. 168. 169. 170. 171. 172. 173. 174. 175. 176. 177. 178. 179. 180. 181 182. 183, 184, 185. 186, Mimudea leucanalis Swinhoe 1890 Nausinoe perspectata (Fabricius , 1775) Noorda blitealis Walker, 1859 Notarcha quaternalis Zeller, 1852 Palpita vitrealis (Rossi, 1794) Parapoynx crisonalis Walker, 1859 Parapoynx depunctalis Guenee, 1854 Parapoynx fluctuosalis Walker, 1852 Parotis marginata Hampson, 1893 Parotis marinata (Fabricius, 1784) Parotis vertumnalis Guenee, 1854 Pleuroptya balteata (Fabricius, 1798) Polygrammodes sabelialis Guenee, 1854 Pycnarmon caberalis Guenee, 1854 Pycnarmon meritalis Walker, 1859 Pycnarmon virgatalis Moore, 1867 Pygospila tyres Cramet,1780 Pyrausta incoloralis Guenee, 1854 Ramila marginella Moore, 1868 Sameodes cancellalis Zeller, 1852 Schoenobius adjurellus Walker, 1863 Schoenobius bipunctifer Walker, 1863 Schoenobius immeritalis Walker, 1859 Schoenobius incertellus Walker, 1863 Scirpophaga auriflua Zeller, 1863 Scirpophaga incertulus Walker, 1863 Syllepte lunalis Guenee, 1854 Syllepte derogata Fabricius, 1775 Synclera traducalis Zeller, 1852 Talanga sexpunctalis Moore, 1877 Tatobotys varanesalis Walker, 1858 Terastia meticulosalis Guenee, 1854 Tetridia caletoralis Walker, 1859 Family: ELACHISTIDAE Thudaca obliquella Walker, 1856 Family: PYRALIDAE |. Euzophera perticella Ragonot, 1888 . Galleria mellonella Linnaeus, 1758 Herculia nigrivitta Walker, 1863 Herculia suffusalis [Walker, 1866] Hypsopygia mauritialis Boisduval, 1833 Oligochroa leucophaeella Zeller, 1867 . Orthopygia igniflualis Walker, 1859 . Phycita hemixanthella Hampson, 1896 . Pyralis manihotalis Guenee, 1854 . Pyralis pictalis Curtis, 1834 . Tamraca torridalis Lederer, 1863, Thylacoptila paurosema Meyrick, 1885ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Authors are grateful to Dr. Kailash Chandra, Director, ZSI, Kolkata for providing necessary facilities for this work and for studying the materials. Thanks are also due to Mr. K. C. Gopi, Scientist-F, ZSI, Kolkata forhis constant support. REFERENCES Beccaloni, G., Scoble, M., Kitching, I., Simonsen, T., Robinson, G., Pitkin, B., Hine, A. and Lyal, C. (Eds.) 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (Lepindex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http:/www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex. (Accessed on October 2014), Bhattacharya, D.P. 1997. 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Very little has been known about the occurrence of these notorious pests from the metropolitan city like Kolkata, At the beginning of 20” century Gahan (1906) documented the cerambycid fauna of India and Indian Sub region and reported 6 species of Cerambycidae from Kolkata, Few scattered ‘works were initiate by Saha and Raychaudhuri (2000) and Raychaudhuri and Saha (2000) from North Bengal but no such work has been done from Kolkata after Gahan (1906). Kolkata Metropolitan Region (KMR), the urban agglomeration of the city of Kolkata in the state of West Bengal and the largest agglomeration in eastern India, extends over 1886.67 sq km (KMDA annual report 2010-2011). KMR holds a population of 14,112,536, according to 2011 Census. It includes three Municipal corporations and 38 Municipalities. Present communication reports four new records of Cerambycidae, namely, Chlorophorus annularis (Fabricius, 1787), Batocera rufomaculata (Degeer, 1775), Xvstracera globosa (Olivier, 1795) and Stromatium barbatum (Fabricius, 1775) from Kolkata Metropolitan Region (KMR) (Table-1). ‘Subfamily ‘Tribe SLNo. ‘Scientific name Prioninae ‘Acgosomatini 1 Baralipton maculasum Thomson, 1857 Cerambyeinae ‘Macrotomini 2 “Anomophysisinscripra (Waterhouse, 1884) Oemini 3 Noserius indicus Gahan, 1906) Cerambyeini 4 Neoplocaederus ferrugineus Linnaeus, 1758) Calidiopini s. Gelonaetha hirta (Fsirmsire, 1850) 6 Chlorophorus annularis Fabricius, 1787) 1 Pachylocerus crassicornis Olivier, 1795) ‘Xystrocerini 8 _Aystrocera globasa (Olivier, 1795) Hesperophani 9. ‘Siromatium barbatum (abrcius, 1775) Taming Batoc To. Batocerarufomaculata (Degeet, 1775 DISCUSSION The present communication showcases a total number of 10 species under 10 tribes belong to three sub families, Prioninae, Cerambycinae and Lamiinac, Among them Sub family Cerambycinae includes maximum number of species (8) and sub family Prioninae and Lamiinae include one species each. This report includes four new records from KMR, as ‘mentioned above.D EAVES 14e (Chlorophorus annulars (Fabricius, 1787) Xystocera globasa (Olivier, 1795) Batocera rufomaculata (Degect, 1775) ‘Siromatium barbatum (Fabricius, 1775) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Authors are grateful to Dr. Kailash Chandra, Director, ZSI, Kolkata for providing necessary facilities for this work and forstudying the materials. Thanks are also due to Mr. K. C. Gopi, Scientist-F, ZSI, Kolkata for his constantsupport. REFERENCE Gahan, CJ. 1906.The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera: Cerambycidae. Taylor and Francis, London. 329 pp. Raychaudhuri, D. and Saha, S. 2000. 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