New records of pyraloid moths (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) from India

B.S.K. Rao & C. Sivaperuman

Abstract. Four species of the family Crambidae (superfamily Pyraloidea) are reported for the first time from India, based on the material collected from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 2018–2020, namely Glyphodes cosmarcha Meyrick, 1887, Palpita cirralis (Swinhoe, 1897), Pachynoa xanthochyta (Turner, 1933) and Pagyda arbiter (Butler, 1879). The diagnoses and the distributional data on these species are provided; the male and female genital structures are illustrated. The female of G. cosmarcha and the male and female genitalia of P. cirralis are described for the first time.

Key words: India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, diagnostic characters, Pyraloidea, Crambidae, Spilomelinae, Pyraustinae, new records

Zoosystematica Rossica, 2022, 31(1): 20-26 ▪ Published online 7 February 2022

https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2022.31.1.20 ▪ Open full article

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