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  • 16 March, 2023

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Mimeusemia Ceylonica

Mimeusemia Ceylonica

  • After being last seen 127 years ago at Trincomalee in Sri Lanka in 1893, researchers from Tamil Nadu have discovered a rare moth species for the first time in India in the buffer zone of Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR).

About

  • A species of moth known as Mimeusemia Ceylonica is a member of the Noctuidae family and subfamily Agaristinae.
  • Entomologist George Hampson of England originally depicted and characterised it in 1893.
  • The discovery of the moth species in the area has strengthened the case for the region's abundant biodiversity.

Moths

  • All members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies are grouped as moths.
  • There are an estimated 160,000 different species of moth, many of which have not yet been identified.
  • There are nocturnal, crepuscular, and diurnal moth species in addition to the majority of nocturnal species.

The rest of the Lepidoptera, which includes the moths, do not form a monophyletic group like the butterflies do.

Read Also: Tiger Reserves and Tiger Census

Source: The Hindu


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Sal Tree

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