Micardia pulcherrima, Moore, 1867

Joshi, Rahul, Raha, Angshuman, Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran, Bhattacharyya, Kamalika & Singh, Navneet, 2025, A catalogue of Noctuidae Latreille, 1809 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from India, Zootaxa 5669 (1), pp. 1-225 : 59

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scientific name	Micardia pulcherrima
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Treatment

54. Micardia pulcherrima View in CoL (Moore, 1867: 48, pl. 6, f. 7) ( Leucania )

TL: Darjiling [Darjeeling, West Bengal, India]

Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal (Moore 1867, Cotes & Swinhoe 1887). Global: Bhutan, Tibet ( Chen & Xue 2012).

Genus Mimasura Hampson, 1910 [August]: 412

Type species: Mimasura quadripuncta Hampson, 1910: 412 , by subsequent designation by Collins (1962): 123.

= Mimasura Hampson, 1910 View in CoL [December]: xvii, 634 (TS: Xanthoptera tripuncta Hampson, 1902: 398 )

Mimasura Hampson, 1910 View in CoL [December] is a junior homonym of Mimasura Hampson, 1910 View in CoL [August]. This generic name was used and made available by Hampson 1910 [August], prior to its proposal and generic description by Hampson 1910 [December]. The date of publication of the former is printed in the separates of Hampson’s Proc. zool. Soc. Bond, paper; the date of publication of the latter is given by Collins 1962: 126. There is no objective replacement name but X. tripuncta is congeneric with Mimasura quadripuncta Hampson, 1910 View in CoL , the type species of Mimasura Hampson, 1910 View in CoL [August]. The latter is therefore available for use as a subjective replacement name ( Nye 1975).