cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gonatopus Olmi, Rasnitsyn & Guglielmino, 2010, n. sp.
Creators: name: Olmi, Massimo
name: Rasnitsyn, Alexander P.
name: Guglielmino, Adalgisa
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Year: 2010
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Plantae
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Gonatopus

description: Gonatopus? cretacicus Olmi, Rasnitsyn & Guglielmino, n. sp.
Material examined: male holotype, PIN no. 3901/132 from Eastern Siberia, Magadan Region, Obeschchayushchiyi fossil site, Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian), Ola Formation (90–95 mybp). FEMALE: unknown.
MALE (Fig. 9): length 4.5 mm; length of the main regions: head: 0.56 mm; mesosoma: 3.94 mm; prothorax: 0.25 mm; mesothorax + metathorax + propodeum: 3.69 mm; gaster: 2.50 mm. Antennae missing. Head only visible from lateral side. Eyes large (eyes length shorter than head in lateral view (0.37:0.56)). Temples very reduced. Occiput not visible. Palpi not visible. Mesosoma normal (as in the extant males of Gonatopus). Forewing hyaline, with three basal cells completely enclosed by pigmented veins. Marginal cell open (distal extremity of stigmal vein reaching the wing margin, but narrower that rest of vein). Pterostigma very narrow, with the following length/breadth ratio: 11:2.5. Petiole absent. Legs only partly visible. Tibial spurs not visible.
Remarks: Gonatopus cretacicus n. sp. is tentatively attributed to Gonatopus Ljungh, 1810, though it is only visible from lateral side. However, the head shape, pterostigma shape, forewing venation and general shape of the body are typical of Gonatopus males. No further fossil species of Gonatopus are known. N. Ponomarenko (1981) described Laberius antiquus from Taimyr amber. It was included in the genus Laberius Kieffer, 1914, that now is considered junior synonym of Gonatopus Ljungh. However, this species is now attributed to Dryinus Latreille, 1804 (Olmi, 1984; Olmi & Bechly, 2001).
description: Published as part of Olmi, Massimo, Rasnitsyn, Alexander P. & Guglielmino, Adalgisa, 2010, Revision of rock fossils of Dryinidae and Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), pp. 21-38 in Zootaxa 2499 on pages 29-30, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.293341
Deinodryinus R. Perkins
Creators: name: Olmi, Massimo
name: Rasnitsyn, Alexander P.
name: Guglielmino, Adalgisa
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Year: 2010
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Deinodryinus

description: Deinodryinus R. Perkins
Deinodryinus R. Perkins, 1907: 45.
Type species: Deinodryinus paradoxus R. Perkins, 1907, desig. by Muesebeck & Walkley, 1951.
FEMALE: macropterous or micropterous; palpal ratio: 6/3; in macropterous females forewing usually with distal part of stigmal vein longer than proximal part, less frequently as long as, or shorter than proximal part; occipital carina complete; vertex of head frequently with two strong oblique keels connecting posterior ocelli to occipital carina; pronotum with distinct anterior collar and posterior disc; enlarged claw with inner proximal prominence not bearing bristles, with 1–2 bristles or peg-like hairs located further distally than proximal prominence; tibial spurs 1, 1, 2.
MALE: always macropterous (even if the female is micropterous); palpal ratio: 6/3; forewing usually with distal part of stigmal vein longer than proximal part, less frequently as long as, or shorter than proximal part; forewing usually with pterostigma four or more than four times as long as broad; antennal hairs usually much longer than breadth of segments, less frequently shorter than breadth of segments; vertex of head frequently with two strong oblique keels connecting the posterior ocelli to the occipital carina; parameres without dorsal process, usually with more or less large inner branch wrapping penis, less frequently with reduced inner branch; tibial spurs 1, 1, 2.
SPECIES: 146 extant species + two fossil species (Deinodryinus areolatus (N. Ponomarenko, 1975), from Baltic amber, and Deinodryinus? aptianus Olmi, Rasnitsyn & Guglielmino, n. sp.).
description: Published as part of Olmi, Massimo, Rasnitsyn, Alexander P. & Guglielmino, Adalgisa, 2010, Revision of rock fossils of Dryinidae and Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), pp. 21-38 in Zootaxa 2499 on page 30, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.293341
Anteonopsis Olmi, Rasnitsyn & Guglielmino, n. gen.
Creators: name: Olmi, Massimo
name: Rasnitsyn, Alexander P.
name: Guglielmino, Adalgisa
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Anteonopsis

description: Anteonopsis Olmi, Rasnitsyn & Guglielmino, n. gen.
Type species: Anteonopsis antiquus Olmi, Rasnitsyn & Guglielmino, n. sp.
FEMALE (Figs 11–12): apparently without wings; palpi not visible; pronotum long, less broad at anterior margin than at posterior; propodeum apparently reticulate rugose, with areolae very large; petiole very short; sting present; chela not visible; legs only partly visible; tibial spurs not visible.
MALE: unknown.
Remarks: Anteonopsis Olmi, Rasnitsyn & Guglielmino, n. gen. is similar to Lonchodryinus Kieffer, 1905, and Anteon Jurine, 1807, but with areolae of propodeum larger (no extant Lonchodryinus and Anteon have so large areolae).
description: Published as part of Olmi, Massimo, Rasnitsyn, Alexander P. & Guglielmino, Adalgisa, 2010, Revision of rock fossils of Dryinidae and Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), pp. 21-38 in Zootaxa 2499 on page 32, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.293341
Anteonopsis antiquus Olmi, Rasnitsyn & Guglielmino, n. sp.
Creators: name: Olmi, Massimo
name: Rasnitsyn, Alexander P.
name: Guglielmino, Adalgisa
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Anteonopsis
Anteonopsis antiquus

description: Anteonopsis antiquus Olmi, Rasnitsyn & Guglielmino, n. sp.
Material examined: female holotype, PIN no. 3901/130 from Eastern Siberia, Magadan Region, Obeschchayushchiyi fossil site, Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian), Ola Formation (90–95 mybp).
FEMALE (Figs 11–12): apparently without wings; length 7.2 mm; antennae clavate; number of antennal segments not distinct; head subspheroidal, with eyes small and clypeus and mandibles projecting in front of head; pronotum long, less broad at anterior margin than at posterior; pronotal tubercles apparently reaching tegulae; mesothorax and metathorax not clearly distinct; propodeum apparently reticulate rugose, with areolae very large; petiole very short; chela not visible; legs only partly visible; sting present; palpi not visible; tibial spurs not visible.
MALE: unknown.
Remarks: this specimen is only partly visible. However, the shape of the head and pronotum, the very large areolae of the propodeum and the general shape of the body suggest that it belongs to Dryinidae and not to another family of Chrysidoidea. Because of the above characters as a whole, the authors attribute tentatively this specimen to Dryinidae.
description: Published as part of Olmi, Massimo, Rasnitsyn, Alexander P. & Guglielmino, Adalgisa, 2010, Revision of rock fossils of Dryinidae and Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), pp. 21-38 in Zootaxa 2499 on page 32, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.293341
Deinodryinus
Creators: name: Olmi, Massimo
name: Rasnitsyn, Alexander P.
name: Guglielmino, Adalgisa
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Year: 2010
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Deinodryinus

description: Deinodryinus? or Dryinus? sp.
Material examined: a specimen of uncertain sex, PIN no. 3135/5 from Russian Far East, Maritime Province, Velikaya Kema, Kizi Formation, later Earlier or early Middle Miocene (about 16 mybp).
Remarks: this specimen is reduced only to a forewing (Fig. 13). The body, head, legs and antennae are missing. The forewing (length 3.8 mm) has 3 basal cells enclosed by pigmented veins and a pterostigma much longer than broad as in extant and fossil Dryinus and Deinodryinus species. It is impossible to attribute this fossil to one of the above genera, because the specimen is strongly incomplete.
description: Published as part of Olmi, Massimo, Rasnitsyn, Alexander P. & Guglielmino, Adalgisa, 2010, Revision of rock fossils of Dryinidae and Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), pp. 21-38 in Zootaxa 2499 on page 32, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.293341
Anoba Walker, 1858 c: 1844
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name: Ahmad, Jalil
name: Raha, Angshuman
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Erebidae
Anoba

description: Genus Anoba Walker, 1858c: 1844
Type species: Onoba [sic] trigonoides Walker, 1858c (by original designation) (Type locality: Rio Janeiro [Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]
= Galapha Walker, 1858c, 15: 1850. (preoccupied)
= Tephrias Wallengren, 1860: 170.
= Baxagha Walker, 1865b, 33: 1002.
= Arctinia Möschler, 1880: 432.
= Bessacta Warren, 1912: 52.
Taxonomic note: The species of Anoba are usually moderate to large bodied with slightly falcate forewing apex. The genus may be broadly divided into two groups based on the overall wing pattern. The Bessacta group includes species having typical dark greenish-brown archipelagic patches on pale brown or fawn forewings, while, the other group with members having dark brown, black or grey fascies of variable sizes and shapes on relatively pale forewings. The antennae, in males, are either fasciculate or narrowly bipectinate. The male genitalia are characterised by a dorsal rod-like process to the uncus, short and narrow vinculum and well sclerotised costal process of the valva. However, according to Holloway (2005), the genus requires major taxonomic revision to identify synapomorphies, which can firmly define the genus characters. The genus comprises nearly 40 species distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, with exceptionally rich diversity in Afrotropics. Till date, the genus is known by six species from India, with four species in Bessacta group, of which, two species are widely distributed viz., A. pectinata (Hampson, 1896) in the Himalayan, Indo-Burmese and Sundanian hotspot regions, and A. sinuata (Fabricius, 1775) in the Peninsular India and Afrotropical countries, whereas, the other two viz., A. polyspila (Walker, 1865b) and A. tessellata (Moore, 1867) are restricted to Northeast Indian states and in the adjacent areas of Bangladesh.
description: Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil & Raha, Angshuman, 2022, Contribution to the Erebidae fauna of the Great Nicobar Island, India with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), pp. 79-94 in Zootaxa 5165 (1) on page 80, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6825519
Anoba rigida Baniana
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name: Ahmad, Jalil
name: Raha, Angshuman
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Anoba
Anoba rigida

description: Anoba rigida (Swinhoe, 1895: 11) (Baniana)
(Figs 1, 11–12)
Type locality: Gilolo [Halmahera, North Maluku Province, Indonesia]
= Bessacta columnaris Warren, 1912, 19: 52.
Material examined: India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Great Nicobar Island: South West Road, 1 ♂, 07.xi.2018 (NZCZSI, 6761/H10); East-West Road, 1 ♂, 08.xi.2018 (NZCZSI, 6758/H10); 4 km South of Vijay Nagar, 2 ♂, 12.xi.2018 (NZCZSI, 6760/H10); Steel Bridge, East West Road, 1 ♂, 13.xi.2018 (NZCZSI, 6762/H10), K.C. Gopi & party leg.
Diagnosis: Forewing length: ♂ 17–18 mm. Along with Anoba rigida, A. pectinata and A. polyspila have typical mosaics of archipelagic dark greenish-brown patches on pale brown forewings which readily separate these three species from the other congeners. Externally, A. rigida differs from A. pectinata by the presence of fasciculate antennae in male (narrowly bipectinate in A. pectinata), forewing with the basal dark patch more broken, and the medial patch well separated from the submarginal and apical patches (more or less contiguous in A. pectinata) and paler hindwing. In male genitalia A. rigida is conspicuously distinct from A. pectinata by the upwardly curved rectangular valva with a thumb like distal costal process on well sclerotized costa, shorter and stouter aedeagus, and vesica with several diverticula and a cluster of many strong cornuti distally. In comparison to other two species, A. polyspila is darker, with slightly smaller dark green patches on forewing, and the medial patch, in particular, does not touch the inner margin completely (which is well extended up to the inner margin in A. rigida and A. pectinata). Moreover, the hindwing in A. polyspila is darker towards the outer margin.
Distribution: Indonesia (Java, Riau, Sumatra), Malaysia (Malay Peninsula, Borneo) (Holloway 2005), India (the Great Nicobar Island) (present study).
Remarks: The present record is the seventh Anoba species from India and first from any Indian island. Anoba rigida is exclusively a Sundanian species preferring lowland open habitats in secondary, coastal and riverine forests with altitude ranging below 200 m (Holloway 2005).
description: Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil & Raha, Angshuman, 2022, Contribution to the Erebidae fauna of the Great Nicobar Island, India with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), pp. 79-94 in Zootaxa 5165 (1) on page 81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6825519
Garudinia Moore 1882
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name: Ahmad, Jalil
name: Raha, Angshuman
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Arctiidae
Garudinia

description: Genus Garudinia Moore, 1882: 59
Type species: Tospitis latana Walker, 1863 (by original designation) (Type locality: Ceylon [Sri Lanka])
Taxonomic note: The genus comprises 14 species distributed throughout the Oriental tropics including Indo-Burmese and Sundaland hotspot regions to the Philippines, with maximum diversity from the Borneo (Holloway 2001). From India, five species of Garudinia are hitherto known with only one species, G. simulana (Walker, 1863) from the Great Nicobar Island (Arora & Singh 1975, Singh et al. 2021e). Externally, the genus Garudinia closely resembles Padenia Moore, 1882 and shares the similar looking forewing pattern comprising whitish or ochreous ground colour with two blackish-brown bands on it, and marginally excised hindwing in males. However, Garudinia has broader bands with often basal or subbasal bands not touching the costa of forewing and the hindwing is mostly shaded with grey or fuscous. The androconial patches in males of Padenia are restricted to the hindwing costa, whereas, in Garudinia, they are found in the cell of forewing and sometimes in the cell and near the apex of hindwing as in G. simulana species group. In male genitalia, Garudinia is clearly distinct by the presence of a typical short, slender and curved distal part to the well-developed saccular process of the valva.
description: Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil & Raha, Angshuman, 2022, Contribution to the Erebidae fauna of the Great Nicobar Island, India with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), pp. 79-94 in Zootaxa 5165 (1) on page 81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6825519
Nishada Moore 1878
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name: Ahmad, Jalil
name: Raha, Angshuman
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Nishada

description: Genus Nishada Moore, 1878: 23
Type species: Nishada flabrifera Moore, 1878 (Type locality: Calcutta [Kolkata, India])
= Petalopleura Meyrick, 1889: 458.
Taxonomic note: The genus Nishada Moore, 1878 was erected as monotypic for its type species, N. flabrifera under the subfamily Lithosiinae (Lithosiidae) (currently recognised as tribe Lithosiini) from Calcutta [Kolkata], India. Presently, the genus represents 20 species (including the nominotypical subspecies) and one subspecies distributed mainly in the Indo-Australian tropics and rarely in the higher latitudes, such as in Nepal and North-eastern Himalaya of the Palaearctic zone (Holloway 2001, Joshi et al. 2016). Of which, four species are known from India, N. chilomorpha adunca Holloway, 2001, N. flabrifera Moore, 1878, N. pseudochilomorpha Joshi & N. Singh in Joshi et al., 2016 and N. rotundipennis Walker, 1862 (Singh et al. 2021e). Majority of the Nishada have unmarked whitish-yellow or beige wings with characteristically elongated forewings and short hindwings. In males, the shortness of the hindwing is more evident where the androconial bearing subcostal area is extended and sometimes folded. The male genitalia generally bear a large spine-like process originating subbasally from the valva costa.
description: Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil & Raha, Angshuman, 2022, Contribution to the Erebidae fauna of the Great Nicobar Island, India with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), pp. 79-94 in Zootaxa 5165 (1) on page 82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6825519
Nishada sambara Lithosia
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name: Ahmad, Jalil
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Nishada
Nishada sambara

description: Nishada sambara (Moore, 1859: 304) (Lithosia)
(Figs 3, 16–17)
Type Locality: Java (Indonesia)
= Lithosia intacta Walker, 1862, 6:103.
= Lithosia chryseola Snellen, 1879, 22: 83.
= Nishada flavens Rothschild, 1912, 19 (2): 216.
Material examined: India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Great Nicobar Island: 1 ♂, Check-post, East-West Road, 04.xi.2018 (NZCZSI, 9280/H10); 1 ♂, Watch Tower, 06.xi.2018 (NZCZSI, 9281/H10), 1 ♂, Watch Tower, 08.xi.2018 (NZCZSI, 9282/H10), K. C. Gopi & Party leg.
Diagnosis: Forewing length: ♂ 12–14 mm. Externally, N. sambara resembles many of its congeners by the overall yellowish or orange-yellow ground colour, with both the wings devoid of any characteristic markings. The species shows minor sexual dimorphism, in male, the expanded subcosta of hindwing is folded on the underside and fringed with hairs. The species is best separable by its male genitalia having characteristically appressed valva costa which is reflexed and scobinate at the apex, large saccular process with a distinct bulge at its inner side, just above the middle of its length and a small sub-apical spine at its outer side. The aedeagus is long, slightly sinuous with a distinct small spine at the carina and the vesica has two sclerotized plates with minute dentations.
Distribution: Indonesia (Bali, Java, Sumatra, North Sulawesi (Sangihe)), Malaysia (Borneo), Philippines, Thailand (Ranong, Phang Nga, Chumphon) (Holloway 2001, Černý & Pinratana 2009), India (the Great Nicobar) (present study).
Remark: The present study reports the fifth species of Nishada from India and first from any Indian island. We observed few variations in our specimens when compared with those from other regions (Holloway 2001). The Nicobar population have smaller forewing length (♂ 12–14 mm), broader valva costa with a distinct bulge and a minute hook at the apex and the reflexed apical extension is broader and less scobinated. Moreover, the carinal spine of the aedeagus and the sclerotized plates of the vesica are more pronounced in the Nicobar population than the Bornean population.
description: Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil & Raha, Angshuman, 2022, Contribution to the Erebidae fauna of the Great Nicobar Island, India with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), pp. 79-94 in Zootaxa 5165 (1) on page 83, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6825519
Teulisna Walker 1862
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Teulisna

description: Genus Teulisna Walker, 1862: 109
Type species: Teulisna plagiata Walker, 1862 (Type locality: Sarawak [Borneo, Malaysia])
= Tegulata Walker, 1862, 6: 110.
= Corcura Walker, 1862, 6: 110.
= Cossa Walker, [1865a], 31: 232.
= Ityca Walker, 1866, 35: 1889.
= Diastrophia Felder & Felder, 1874: pl. 106, f. 13.
= Bitecta Heylaerts, 1891: ccccxi [411].
= Lophoneura Hampson, 1894, 2: 78.
Taxonomic notes: The genus includes 38 species (including the nominotypical subspecies) and 2 subspecies distributed mainly in the Oriental region comprising India, China, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand and with few species in the Australian tropics (Holloway 2001, Kirti et al. 2014). The wing shape of the Teulisna species varies, but broadly categorized into the typical group having the forewing tornus falcate, and the bitecta group with elongate and elliptical forewing. Majority of the species are sexually dimorphic where males show varying degrees of forewing modifications with the brushes of scales at the base of costa and in the cell. Holloway (1982, 2001) identified male genitalia characters typical to the genus including squarish frame of the vinculum, slightly indented at the distal margin, supporting a membrane which often holds diverse setose patches, scent pencils and other structures, saccular process of the valva has dense setae or apical spines and aedeagus vesica has diverticula which may or may not have cornuti. In India, Teulisna is represented by 11 species, mainly from the North-East and Western Ghats (Singh et al. 2021e).
description: Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil & Raha, Angshuman, 2022, Contribution to the Erebidae fauna of the Great Nicobar Island, India with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), pp. 79-94 in Zootaxa 5165 (1) on page 83, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6825519
Plusiodonta Guenee 1852
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Plusiodonta

description: Genus Plusiodonta Guenée, 1852a: 359
Type species: Plusiodonta chalsytoides Guenée, 1852 (= P. coelonota (Kollar, 1844)) (Type locality: Java (Indonesia))
= Gadera Walker, [1858a], 12: 956.
= Deva Walker, [1858a], 12: 962.
= Odontina Guenée, 1862: 42. (preoccupied)
= Tafalla Walker, 1869: 42.
= Tinnodoa Nye, 1975: 483. (Replacement name for Odontina)
Taxonomic notes: The pantropical genus Plusiodonta hitherto comprises 41 species mainly distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, with few species extending into the temperate latitudes (Behounek et al. 2017). It is exceptionally diverse in the South East Asia and the Afro-tropics. The genus extends east to Fiji and New Caledonia in the Indo-Australian tropics where few endemic species are found (Robinson 1975, Holloway 1979). Only two species have so far been reported from India, among which P. coelonota (Kollar, 1844) shows a wider distribution from the Palaearctic to the Indo-Australian tropics, while, the other species, P. auripicta Moore, 1882 is reported only from the North-eastern part of the country. The members of Plusiodonta have typical forewing shape for Calpinae and golden or silvery irregular patches or spots on varying degrees of brown background of forewing. Labial palpi are upturned with 3 rd segment noticeably narrow and sharply directed from 2 nd segment. In male genitalia, the valva is broad, especially at the distal end, with sometimes angular costal margin and sacculus bearing process from inner margin. Aedeagus is usually long with tubular or bulbous vesica which may have patches of small cornuti.
description: Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil & Raha, Angshuman, 2022, Contribution to the Erebidae fauna of the Great Nicobar Island, India with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), pp. 79-94 in Zootaxa 5165 (1) on page 84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6825519
Tamba Walker 1869
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Tamba

description: Genus Tamba Walker, 1869: 94
Type species: Tamba submicacea Walker, 1869 (Type locality: Benares [Varanasi, India])
= Obdora Walker, 1869: 95.
Taxonomic notes: Tamba is a diverse tropical and subtropical genus including about 75–80 medium to large bodied and delicate species. The genus is well spread throughout the Oriental and Indo-Australian tropics with exceptionally high diversity in the Sundaland and New Guinea. Few species also extend their distributions to higher latitudes, such as in the Himalayas, China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea. Till date, ten species of Tamba have been reported from India, distributed in North India, Central and East Himalaya, North-East India and Andaman Islands. Although diverse, these moths have distinctive more or less uniformly patterned wings with pale reddish-brown, fawn or greyish ground colour on which the postmedial is generally angled or curved beyond the discal area of forewing. The hindwing is usually of the similar pattern as the forewing. In males, the antennae are ciliate and legs often bear tufts of scale crests and hair pencils. The eighth sternite in the male abdomen also has a pair of hair pencils and often a third smaller one is centrally located anterior to them. The male genitalia are usually elongate with uncus giving rise to a tuft of hairs from its dorsal concavity. The tegumen is much shorter than the vinculum with a central setose expansion or lobe on each side. The distal part of the valva is reduced to a small lobe and two or three processes extend from the costa base to the sacculus apex, thus making up most of the valva length. The aedeagus is usually long, narrow with basally broad tubular vesica, sometimes bearing small diverticula. Larvae of several species of Tamba were recorded to feed on Aporusa (Euphorbiaceae), Barringtonia (Lecythidaceae), Sandoricum (Meliaceae) and Symphorema (Verbenaceae) (Robinson et al. 2001). Many of the Tamba species are recorded from the lowland softwood plantations in Sabah (Chey 1994).
description: Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil & Raha, Angshuman, 2022, Contribution to the Erebidae fauna of the Great Nicobar Island, India with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), pp. 79-94 in Zootaxa 5165 (1) on page 86, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6825519
Tamba cosmoloma Prout 1928
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Tamba
Tamba cosmoloma

description: Tamba cosmoloma Prout, 1928: 468
(Figs 8, 22–23)
Type locality: Mt. Poi, Sarawak (Borneo, Malaysia)
Material examined: India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Great Nicobar Island: 2 ♂, Steel Bridge, East West Road, 13.xi.2018 (NZCZSI, 9283/H10); 1 ♂, Bird Watching Point, 14.xi.2018 (NZCZSI, 9284/H10); 1♂, Afrabay, 14.xi.2018 (NZCZSI, 9285/H10), K.C. Gopi & party leg.
Diagnosis: Forewing length: ♂ 17–18 mm. T. cosmoloma has characteristic pale reddish-brown, obliquely sinuous, transverse fasciae on fawn ground colour of both the wings. Double post-median fascia of both the wings is little more prominent than the rest of the fasciae and beyond which faint reddish-brown shading, restricted within the anterior half of the marginal area of only forewing. Each wing with a sub-tornal black spot, that on hindwing is larger. Male genitalia have typical triangular valva with short costa and long, straight and broad sacculus, a thumb like distal costal process, asymmetrically bilobed distal saccular process and elongated, distally setose, tongue-like juxta.
Distribution: Indonesia (Java, Sulawesi, Sumatra), Malaysia (Borneo and Malay Peninsula), Thailand (Holloway 2005), India (the Great Nicobar) (present study).
Remarks: Based on reddish-brown shading of both wings, T. cosmoloma exists in two distinct forms. The form studied herein has faint shading restricted within the anterior half of the marginal area of forewing, whereas, the other form has more intense, dark reddish-brown shading on both the wings. T. cosmoloma is infrequent, but generally found in lowland, tropical rainforests and in both pristine and disturbed habitats (Holloway 2005). The present records of this and the next species add two more members to the existing 10 species of Tamba in India.
description: Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil & Raha, Angshuman, 2022, Contribution to the Erebidae fauna of the Great Nicobar Island, India with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), pp. 79-94 in Zootaxa 5165 (1) on pages 86-87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6825519
Tamba occidinawa Holloway 2005
Creators: name: Singh, Navneet
name: Ahmad, Jalil
name: Raha, Angshuman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Tamba
Tamba occidinawa

description: Tamba occidinawa Holloway, 2005: 360
(Figs 9, 24–25)
Type locality: Danum Valley, Sabah (Borneo, Malaysia)
Material examined: India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Great Nicobar Island: 1♂, Galathea, 07.xi.2018 (NZCZSI, 9286/H10); 2 ♂, Laxmi Nagar, 11.xi.2018 (NZCZSI, 9287/H10); 1 ♂, Steel Bridge, East West Road, 13.xi.2018 (NZCZSI, 9288/H10), K.C. Gopi & party leg.
Diagnosis: Forewing length: ♂ 15–16 mm. Externally, T. occidinawa is closely similar to T. dinawa (BethuneBaker, 1906), but is slightly smaller and having paler reniform on forewing. Moreover, T. occidinawa lacks the subdorsal pale patch, just distal to the postmedial line on forewing, which is present in T. dinawa. Another similar looking species, T. rufipennis (Hampson, 1895) has darker brown wings with blackish-brown double postmedial lines. In male genitalia, T. occidinawa differs from T. dinawa by broader and less spatulate costal process and asymmetrically bifid saccular process of valva.
Distribution: Indonesia (Sulawesi, Sumatra), Malaysia (Borneo), Thailand (Holloway 2005), the Great Nicobar (present study).
Remarks: T. occidinawa is also a lowland rainforest species, usually recorded from altitudes below 200 m (Holloway 2005).
description: Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil & Raha, Angshuman, 2022, Contribution to the Erebidae fauna of the Great Nicobar Island, India with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), pp. 79-94 in Zootaxa 5165 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6825519
Anereuthina Hubner 1823
Creators: name: Singh, Navneet
name: Ahmad, Jalil
name: Raha, Angshuman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Anereuthina

description: Genus Anereuthina Hübner, 1823: 23
Type species: Anereuthina renosa Hübner, 1823 (Type locality: Java (Indonesia))
= Hypaetra Guenée, 1852b: 259.
Taxonomic notes: The genus Anereuthina Hübner, 1823 was erected as a monotypic for its type species, A. renosa in the family Ophiusidae. Globally, the genus is known by three species, of which, A. renosa is restricted to the Oriental tropics, while, A. atriplaga (Walker, 1869) and A. somaliensis (Berio, 1985) are distributed in Afrotropics. The members of this genus are usually large with variable black patch on relatively dull brown forewing. The patch is somewhat similar to the one situated most distally on the forewing of Avatha Walker, [1858b], whose several species were earlier described under Hypaetra, a junior synonym of Anereuthina. The males of Anereuthina have robustly filiform antennae and scale tufts on the tibia of all legs. The male genitalia have some characters typical to the genus, such as the uncus apex produced into a small ball and claw, scaphium present, inverted Y-shaped juxta, paddle-like valva with a slender harpe on the sacculus. The female genitalia have ostium situated anterior to the eighth segment which opens into slender, sclerotized ductus bursae which then continues to an elliptical corpus bursae of similar length and with sparse to coarse scobinations.
description: Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil & Raha, Angshuman, 2022, Contribution to the Erebidae fauna of the Great Nicobar Island, India with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), pp. 79-94 in Zootaxa 5165 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6825519
Anereuthina renosa Hubner 1823
Creators: name: Singh, Navneet
name: Ahmad, Jalil
name: Raha, Angshuman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Anereuthina
Anereuthina renosa

description: Anereuthina renosa Hübner, 1823: 23
(Figs 10, 26)
Type locality: Java (Indonesia)
= Hypaetra lilach Guenée, 1852b, 7: 260.
= Hypaetra occularia Swinhoe, 1890: 246.
Material examined: India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Great Nicobar Island, Bird Watching Point, 1 ♀, 14.xi.2018, K.C. Gopi & party leg. (NZCZSI, 6688/H10).
Diagnosis: Forewing length: ♀ 21 mm. The species is characterised by chocolaty brown colour with roughly triangular forewing, patterned with pale mauve fasciation, often indistinct. In the centre of the forewing, just beyond the lower angle of cell, there is a large black elliptical patch bordered antero-basally with dusty olive green scales. The hindwing is duller brown with a double, shallowly excavate zone at the margin near the anal angle. However, the species is highly variable in the extent and intensity of the black patch at the centre of the forewing (Holloway 2005). Female genitalia is characterised by slender, long, sclerotized ductus bursae and large, oval corpus bursae with scobination, especially near the base.
Distribution: Indonesia (Java) (Hübner 1823), India (Meghalaya, Andaman Island) (www.mothsofindia.org), Malaysia (Borneo), Myanmar, Philippines (Holloway 2005), the Great Nicobar (present study).
Remarks: Present report is the first record of A. renosa from the Nicobar Islands. The distribution of this species in India is documented on www.mothsofindia.org through photographic evidence from South Garo Hills, Meghalaya and Port Blair, Andaman Islands (Sondhi et al. 2021). But we could not review any published document regarding its distribution in India. The species is recorded between wide altitudinal ranges from lowland dipterocarp forest at 150 m in Nicobar (present study), to uphill montane forest at 1618 m altitude in Borneo, Malaysia (Holloway 2005).
description: Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil & Raha, Angshuman, 2022, Contribution to the Erebidae fauna of the Great Nicobar Island, India with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), pp. 79-94 in Zootaxa 5165 (1) on page 91, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6825519
Oteana iaorana Hoch, 2006, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Hoch, Hannelore
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cixiidae
Oteana
Oteana iaorana

description: Oteana iaorana sp. nov.
(figs 16–21)
Description.
Body length.
Male. 6.2–6.3 mm; n= 2.
Coloration.
Head and thorax as in O. euphranor .. Legs stramineous, ventrally dark brown. Tegmina hyaline, translucent, proximally smoky brown, especially around the Y­vein. Costal vein proximad of junction with Y­vein dark brown over a short distance.
Proportions and carination of head and thorax as well as spinulation of hind legs as described for the genus, slightly larger than O. euphranor.
17, same, ventral aspect; 18, anal segment, dorsal aspect; 19, same, left lateral aspect; 20, left paramere,
maximal aspect; 21, aedeagus, ventral aspect. Scale bars equal 0.1 mm.
Male genital complex (figs 16–21)
Genital segment (figs 16, 17) bilaterally slightly asymmetrical: dorsolateral angle of subrectangular lobe acute on left side, on right side slightly longer, rounded. Anal segment (figs 18, 19) bilaterally symmetrical, broadly ovate. Parameres (fig. 20) distally produced into a blunt angle, mediodorsal margin serrate. Aedeagus (fig. 21): shaft with 3 ventral spines: right lateral spine (a1) inserting near base, compress, medially distinctly dilated, tapering towards tip, curved laterad to the right side; median spine (a2) inserting near base, short, thorn­like; left lateral spine (a3) of similar shape as spine a1, slightly more slender, strong, compressed, curved laterad to the right side, more or less parallel to right lateral spine; in one specimen with vestigial remnant of spine a4. Apical spine of shaft (a5) long, compress, taeniform, curved laterad to the left side; subapical spine of shaft (a6) ca. half the length of apical spine, compress, sinuate, directed laterad to the left side. Some slight variation among specimens in length of ventral shaft spines. Flagellum in repose nearly reaching base of shaft; distal flagellum spine (b1) present, not strongly sclerotized; in repose directed mediad.
Etymology
“Ia orana” is Tahitian for “hello”.
Distribution
Endemic to Tahiti (Tahitit Nui and Tahiti Iti).
Ecology
On native vegetation including Weinmannia parviflora (Cunoniaceae), Metrosideros collina (Myrtaceae), Myrsine spec. (Myrsinaceae). From 900– ca. 1400 m.
Remarks
O. iaorana differs from O. euphranor in body size (slightly larger) and particularly in the configuration of the male genitalia: genital segment slightly asymmetrical, and in the arrangement of ventral aedeagal spines.
Type material.
Holotypus ɗ: Society Islands: Tahiti I., Taiarapu: above Vaiufaufa, 900 m, 3.VII.1977, at light, S.L. Montgomery, BPBM (type nr. 16616). Paratype: 1 ɗ, Society Islands: Tahiti I., Mt. Aorai Trail, 900–1400m, 16.IV.1999, M.Asche & H. Hoch, MNHN.
description: Published as part of Hoch, Hannelore, 2006, New Cixiidae from Eastern Polynesia: Oteana gen. nov. and Manurevana gen. nov. (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha), pp. 1-47 in Zootaxa 1209 on pages 10-12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172430
Oteana aorai Hoch, 2006, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Hoch, Hannelore
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cixiidae
Oteana
Oteana aorai

description: Oteana aorai sp. nov.
(figs 29–34)
Description
Body length.
Male. 6.8 mm (n=1). Female unknown.
Coloration
Head stramineous, except for area of vertex, areolets, and area enclosed by frontal carina fork, these dark brown. Pronotum as in O. euphranor, mesonotum with areas enclosed by lateral carinae on each side stramineous, distinctly contrasting, resulting in longitudinal stripes. Tegmina hyaline, translucent, without conspicuous markings, pterostigma distinctly dark; venation in distal third dark brown.
Proportions and carination of head and thorax as described for the genus. Metatibiae laterally with 4 small spines. Spinulation of hind legs otherwise as described for the genus.
Male genital complex (figs 29–34).
Genital segment (figs 29, 30) bilaterally asymmetrical: laterodorsal angle of subrectangular process with acute tip on left side, rounded on right side. Anal segment (figs 31, 32) asymmetrical, elongately ovate. Parameres (fig. 33): distal portion produced into a broad lobe, apically rounded. Aedeagus (fig. 34): shaft dorsally with an ear­shaped protrusion near apex (fig. 34, arrow), ventrally with 2 spines: right lateral spine (a1) inserting near shaft base, compressed, taeniform, curved laterad to right side. Left ventral spine (a2) vestigial, tooth­like, inserting mediad of base of right lateral spine. Apical spine of shaft (a5) more or less compressed, bent in a ca. 90º angle at 1/3 of its length, directed laterad to left side, slightly sinuate; subapical spine of shaft (a6) long, slender, terete, bent at midlength, directed laterobasad to left side. Flagellum in repose not reaching base of shaft, distal flagellum spine (b1) short, stout, directed mediad, and a short, inconspicuous spine (b2) arising from sclerotized ridge at midlength of flagellum (fig. 34, arrow).
Etymology
Named for its type locality, Mt. Aorai, near Papeete, Tahiti. Distribution
Endemic to Tahiti (Tahiti Nui: Mt. Aorai).
Ecology
On native vegetation including Weinmannia parviflora (Cunoniaceae), Metrosideros collina (Myrtaceae), Myrsine spec. (Myrsinaceae). Between 600– 900 m.
Remarks
Oteana aorai is easily distinguished from all other Oteana species by its light body coloration and the configuration of the aedeagal shaft spines.
description: Published as part of Hoch, Hannelore, 2006, New Cixiidae from Eastern Polynesia: Oteana gen. nov. and Manurevana gen. nov. (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha), pp. 1-47 in Zootaxa 1209 on pages 15-16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172430
Oteana ata Hoch, 2006, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Hoch, Hannelore
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cixiidae
Oteana
Oteana ata

description: Oteana ata sp. nov.
(figs 41–46)
Description.
Body length.
Male. 5.3 – 5.4 mm (n=3).
Coloration as described for O. euphranor as well as proportions and carination of head and thorax. Metatibiae laterally with 1–2 small spines (variable within individuals), spinulation of hind legs otherwise as described for the genus.
Male genital complex (figs 41–46).
Genital segment (figs 41, 42) nearly bilaterally symmetrical: laterodorsal angle of subrectangular lobes rounded on both sides; subrectangular process on right side slightly more pronounced than on left side. Anal segment (figs 43, 44) symmetrical, elongately ovate. Parameres (fig. 45) with distal part produced into a stout acute tip directed mediad. Aedeagus (fig. 46): shaft ventrally with 2–3 spines: in specimens with 3 ventral shaft spines: median spine (a2+a3?) more or less strongly developed, apically medially truncate, slightly incised; right lateral (a1) and left lateral spine (a4) feebly developed. In specimens with 2 ventral shaft spines, left spine strongly developed, apically acute, right spine feebly developed, as long as left spine. Apical spine of shaft (a5) long, terete, slender throughout, bent in a ca. 90º angle at midlength, in repose directed laterobasad to left side. Subapical spine of shaft (a6) slender at base, nearly straight directed laterodorsad to left side. Flagellum in repose not reaching base of shaft, distal flagellum spine (b1) strongly pronounced, directed straight basad. Sclerotized flagellum ridge produced into a strong, stout spine (b2) directed laterobasad to the left side.
Etymology
Named for a refuge hut, Fare Ata, near the summit of Mt. Aorai, Tahiti.
Distribution
Endemic to Tahiti (Tahiti Nui).
Ecology
On native vegetation including Weinmannia parviflora (Cunoniaceae), Metrosideros collina (Myrtaceae), Myrsine spec. (Myrsinaceae); 900 to above 1400 m.
Type material
Holotypus ɗ, Society Is: Tahiti I., Mt. Aorai Trail, 900 – 1400 m, 16.IV. 1999, M. Asche & H. Hoch, MNHN. Paratypes: 2 ɗ, same data as holotype, except above 1400m, MNHN, AH.
description: Published as part of Hoch, Hannelore, 2006, New Cixiidae from Eastern Polynesia: Oteana gen. nov. and Manurevana gen. nov. (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha), pp. 1-47 in Zootaxa 1209 on pages 20-22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172430
Oteana pouvana Hoch, 2006, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Hoch, Hannelore
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cixiidae
Oteana
Oteana pouvana

description: Oteana pouvana sp. nov.
(figs 54–59)
Description
Body length.
Male. 6.2–6.6 mm (n=3).
Coloration.
Coloration of head as described for O. euphranor, except for the postclypeus which is yellowish in O. pouvana. Pro­ and mesonotum as in O. euphranor. Tegmina with venation stramineous in proximal two­thirds, dark brown in distal third. Costal vein and pterostigma dark brown.
Spinulation of hind legs as described for the genus, with some variation observed: one specimen displayed 4 and 2 spines, respectively, laterally on the hind tibia.
Male genital complex (54–59).
Genital segment (figs 54, 55) bilaterally slightly asymmetrical: dorsolateral angle of subrectangular lobe acute on left side, rounded on right side. Anal segment (figs 56, 57) bilaterally symmetrical, broadly ovate. Parameres (fig. 58) distally produced into a blunt angle directed mediad, mediodorsal margin serrate. Aedeagus (fig. 59): shaft with 3 ventral spines: right lateral spine (a1) inserting near base of shaft, compressed, taeniform, widest at midlength, rapidly tapering, dorsolateral margin irregularly sinuate, twisted at base, curved laterad to right side. Median spine (a2) inserting near base, short, thorn­like; left lateral spine (a3) inserting with a wide base, compressed, taeniform, curved laterad to right side, more or less parallel to right lateral spine. Apical spine of shaft (a5) very long, compressed, taeniform, bent at ca. 1/5 of its total length in a nearly right angle, in repose directed laterad to the left side. Subapical spine of shaft (a6) arising from a narrow base, ca. half as long as apical spine of shaft, but of similar shape and direction. Flagellum in repose not reaching base of shaft, distal flagellum spine (b1) present, not strongly sclerotized, in repose directed straight mediad. Sclerotized ridge of flagellum with ventromedian margin irregularly serrate.
Etymology
Named in honor of Pouvanaa a Oopa, proponent of Polynesian autonomy and first Polynesian to win a seat in the French Chamber of Deputies, in 1949.
Distribution
Endemic to Tahiti (Tahiti Nui).
Ecology
On native vegetation including Weinmannia parviflora (Cunoniaceae), Metrosideros collina (Myrtaceae), Myrsine spec. (Myrsinaceae); 600–1400 m.
Remarks
Oteana pouvana resembles O. iaorana in the aedeagus spine configuration, but differs from this species by the long and taeniform apical shaft spine, as well as in the distal flagellum spine, which is much more strongly pronounced in O. iarorana.
Type material
Holotype ɗ, Society Is: Tahiti I., Mt. Aorai Trail, ca. 600 – 1200 m, 14.IV.1999, M. Asche & H. Hoch, MNHN.
Paratypes: 1 ɗ, same data as holotype, AH; 1 ɗ, same data as holotype except 1000 – 1400 m, 12.V.1999, M. Asche, AH.
description: Published as part of Hoch, Hannelore, 2006, New Cixiidae from Eastern Polynesia: Oteana gen. nov. and Manurevana gen. nov. (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha), pp. 1-47 in Zootaxa 1209 on pages 25-26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172430