Hemiglaea mirabilis Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998

Ahmad, Jalil, Singh, Navneet & Joshi, Rahul, 2023, First record of two species of Xylenini (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Noctuinae) from India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 123 (2), pp. 139-142 : 140-141

Hemiglaea mirabilis Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998 (Figure 1-3)

1998. Hemiglaea mirabilis Hreblay & Ronkay. Tinea , 15 (suppl. 1): 219.

Type locality: Nepal, Ganesh Himal , near Godlang

Material examined: India: West Bengal, Darjeeling, 1.5 km away from Gairibas towards Kaiyakata , 01.iii.2021 (4♂) (N 27.050, E 88.021 and Alt. 2675 M), M.S. Pandher leg ; India, West Bengal, Darjeeling, 1 Km North side of Gairibas , 28.ii.2021 (2♀) (N 27.052 E 88.031 and Alt. 2600 m), M.S. Pandher leg.

Diagnostics feature: Wingspan 32 mm (Figure 1). The head, thorax and forewing are dark chocolate colour, outer margin of the forewing is crenulate with light brown from base to subterminal, forming a triangle with a dark spot. Hindwings are uniformly brown. In male genitalia (Figures 2, 3), uncus short, valvae flap-like with long harpae, saccus triangular shape, aedeagus elongate, vesica without cornutus.

Distribution: India: West Bengal, Darjeeling (present study); Nepal ( Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998).