 ﾖﾙãｮｽ ｫｻｽｮﾝã ﾊ･ ﾃﾊãｫﾝ ;>ﾖｮﾊﾖãﾙͿ ﾊ･ ｫﾙçﾄ Dçﾝﾝﾊﾊﾙｮ ﾄ òｽﾝﾙｮ ｮﾄ Gﾙｫóｽ hããﾙｻｫﾄ /ﾄｮ Yash Sondhi 1 & Sanjay Sondhi 2 1 Indian Insttute of Science Educaton and Research, CET Campus, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 695016, India 1,2 Titli Trust, Villa 49, Rajpur Road Enclave, Dhoran Khas, Dehradun, Utarakhand 248001, India 1 yashsondhi@gmail.com (corresponding author), 2 sanjay.sondhi1@gmail.com 8756 ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) OPEN ACCESS ﾊﾃﾃçﾄｮãｮﾊﾄ :oƵrnal of dhreatened dadža  wwwthreatenedtadžaorŐ  Ϯϲ DaLJ ϮϬϭϲ  ϴ;ϱͿ ϴϳϱϲʹϴϳϳϲ K/ htp://dx.doi.org/10.11609/jot.2814.8.5.8756-8776  ooank urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B0F270EA-2D25-4AF2-80A5-61F63356E0FE ditor Ian J. Kitching, Natural History Museum, London, U.K. ate of ƉƵďlicaton 26 May 2016 (online & print) DanƵscriƉt details Ms # 3084 | Received 14 May 2015 | Final received 17 March 2016 | Finally accepted 10 April 2016 itaton Sondhi, Y. & S. Sondhi (2016). A partal checklist of moths (Lepidoptera) of Dehradun, Mussoorie and Devalsari in Garhwal, Utarakhand, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(5): 8756–8776; htp://dx.doi.org/10.11609/jot.2814.8.5.8756-8776 oƉLJriŐht © Sondhi & Sondhi 2016. Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License. JoTT allows unrestricted use of this artcle in any medium, reproduc- ton and distributon by providing adequate credit to the authors and the source of publicaton. &ƵndinŐ Funding for feld work was provided by Titli Trust. onŇict of /nterest The authors declare no competng interests. Ƶthor etails Yash Sondhi is an integrated Masters student at Indian Insttute of Science Educaton and Research (IISER) Trivandrum in his 4 th year. He has been interested on Lepidoptera taxonomy since his childhood and is now focusing on taxonomy and behavior of Indian moths. He is also a member of Titli Trust, Dehradun. Sanjay Sondhi is a Dehradun-based naturalist, and Founder Trustee, Titli Trust, Dehradun (www.ttlitrust.com). He works on conservaton research and acton, and conservaton educaton in the Himalaya, with a special focus on Lepidoptera. Ƶthor ontriďƵton YS conducted the inital feld work, primarily in 2011 and 2012, surveyed and identfed the moths, wrote the manuscript and prepared the tables, plates and fgures. SS in additon to assistng in the inital surveys also conducted surveys in 2013 and 2014, identfed the moths and reviewed the manuscript. cknowledŐements The authors wish to acknowledge the support received from the Moths of India email group, including the members Ian Kitching and Peter Smetacek for help with moth identfcatons. Additonally, we wish to thank the reviewers who provided some useful comments on previous versions of this manuscript; Anchal Sondhi, who assisted in the feld work; Dr. Dhananjai Mohan, APCCF, Utarakhand Forest Department and Dr. Karthik Vasudevan, LACONES, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, for their inputs designing the study; and Dr. Arun Pratap Singh, Forest Research Insttute, Dehradun, for his suggestons and assistance in obtaining some of the required moth related literature. ďstract: Two-hundred-and-forty-eight species of moths were recorded during surveys conducted over 40 nights in Dehradun and Mussoorie in Dehradun District and Devalsari in Tehri Garhwal District in Utarakhand. <eLJwords Biodiversity, Erebidae, Geometridae, range extension, western Himalaya.