Volume 61, Issue 339, September - December 2025

Moth Diversity of Coastal Purba Medinipur district, West Bengal: A Baseline Survey

Bulganin Mitra¹, Anupam Khan², Samik Jana², Dipak Hazra³, Abhik Rong⁴, Lina Chatterjee⁴, Tarak Samanta⁴, Souvik Mazumdar³, Arjan Basu Roy^4♦

¹Department of Zoology, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College (Autonomous), Chowdhary Para, Rahara, Khardaha, West Bengal – 700118, India
²Forest Department, Govt. of West Bengal, West Bengal, India
³Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata – 700053, India
⁴Nature Mates - Nature Club, 6/7 Bijoygarh, Kolkata – 700032, West Bengal, India

^♦Corresponding Author
Arjan Basu Roy, Nature Mates - Nature Club, 6/7 Bijoygarh, Kolkata – 700032, West Bengal, India

ABSTRACT

Despite the ecological importance of moths, research in the coastal areas of Purba Medinipur district has predominantly focused on butterflies, leaving moth diversity relatively understudied. The present study was conducted in the seaside village of Baguran-Jalpai in Purba Medinipur district, reporting 20 moth species belonging to 13 subfamilies under six families and four superfamilies. Additionally, an updated checklist of 51 species, spanning 21 subfamilies across 11 families under seven superfamilies, recorded from the coastal area of Purba Medinipur district, is also provided.

Keywords: Moth, Coastal ecosystem, Baguran-Jalpai, Purba Medinipur, Checklist

Discovery, 2025, 61, e28d3190

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v61i339.e28d3190

Published: 16 December 2025