Anereuthina renosa Hübner, 1823: 23

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), Zootaxa 5165 (1), pp. 79-94 : 91

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).

Figures

FIGURES 1–10. Adults of new species and new records of Erebidae from the Great Nicobar Island. 1, Anoba rigida, male, dorsal side; 2, Garudinia shompen sp. nov., male (Holotype), dorsal side; 3, Nishada sambara, male, dorsal side; 4, Teulisna chiloides, male, dorsal side; 5, ditto, female, dorsal side; 6, Plusiodonta nicobarensis sp. nov., male (Holotype), dorsal side; 7, ditto, ventral side; 8, Tamba cosmoloma, male, dorsal side; 9, T. occidinawa, male, dorsal side; 10, Anereuthina renosa, female, dorsal side.