Moths of Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India with seventeen additions to the moth fauna of India (Lepidoptera: Heterocera)

Abstract

Moth biodiversity assessments at Tale Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh, India, which consisted of over 29 days of survey during the months of April, May, August and September in 2011 and 2019, resulted in a checklist of 497 moth species of which 460 species are identified to species level, while 37 are identified to genus level. There are 17 species for which no published records exist from India and are additions to the known moth fauna of India, and more than a hundred species for which no published records exist from Arunachal Pradesh. Over 200 species still remain to be identified. We also include two additional plates with species identified after the submission of the manuscript and some prominent unidentified species.