Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea
Family
Erebidae
Subfamily
Arctiinae
Tribe/Subtribe
Lithosiini
Genus
Churinga Moore, 1878
Type Species
Churinga rufifrons Moore, 1878
Species/Subspecies
Churinga metaxantha Hampson, 1895 (Macrobrochis)
Type Locality
Bhutan
= Agylla rufifrons virago Rothschild, 1913
= Agylla filiforms Fang, 1990
= Agylla filifrons (misspell.) Singh et al. 2021: 50 (TL: Bhutan (Dudgeon))
Remarks
Agylla virago is synonymised based on genitalic similarities with C. metaxantha here. Agylla filifrons Fang, 1900 genitalia could not be studied but morphologically it resembles C. metaxantha and considered here as a synonym of C. metaxantha till further studies.
Distribution
States/Union Territories
Sikkim, Uttarakhand
Bio Geographic Zones/Zones
Indian Himalaya
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