Himala Moore 1879

Bali, Gagan Preet Kour, Kaleka, Amritpal Singh & Singh, Devinder, 2020, A new combination of a tussock moth species under Genus Himala Moore (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) and its range extension, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 120 (4), pp. 357-362 : 358

Genus Himala Moore 1879

1879. Himala Moore, Descr. Ind. Lepid. Coll. Atkinson , 1: 57.

1892. Himala Hampson, Moths India, 1: 467.

1922. Himala Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat . Hist., (9) 10 (58): 471. 2003. Himala Chao, Fauna Sinica , 30: 304.

2012. Himala Kaleka , Colemania , 34: 5.

2018. Himala Kaleka et al. , Ann. Entomol., 36 (1): 27-30.

Type species: Redoa argentea Walker 1855 , List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln. Brit. Ind., 4: 827.

Distribution: India: Himalayas, Assam; Elsewhere: China; Europe; Japan; Korea; Malaysia; North-America; Nepal; Vietnam (Inoue, et al., 1956; Holloway, 1999).

Diagnosis: Medium sized moths, usually white in colouration. Labial palpi slender, porrect. Antennae bipectinate, with tufts of long scales from the basal joint,

pectinations reduced at distal end. Forewing slightly acute at apex; discal cell more than half the length of wing,

closed; 1A+2A from base of wing, 3A absent; Cu 1, M 3 and M 2 from near angle of cell; M 1 from upper angle; R 5 -R 3 stalked from upper angle of cell; Sc from base of wing,

not reaching apex. Hindwing oblong; discal cell less than half the length of wing, closed; 1A from base of wing, not reaching tornus; 2A from base of wing reaching tornus;

3A absent; Cu 1, M 3 and M 2 from near lower angle of cell; M 1 and Rs stalked from upper angle of cell; Sc+R 1 from base of wing anastomosing with cell near its middle. Legs dressed with scales; fore-tibia with an epiphysis; midtibia with one pair of tibial spurs; hind-tibia with two pairs of tibial spurs of equal size. Abdomen long, slender; distinct anal tuft in females. Male genitalia with uncus of moderate size, simple; juxta oblong; valvae asymmetrical; left valva simple, short; right valva well developed, broad, distal half narrow, strongly curved, almost double the length of left valva; aedeagus of moderate size, vesica without any distinct cornuti. Female genitalia with corpus bursae quite short, membranous; ductus bursae short, membranous; posterior apophysis longer than anterior ones; papilla analis oblong, well developed.