Mellea Gaede, 1922

Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil, Shah, Suresh K. & Chakraborty, Srijata, 2022, New records of Thyrididae (Lepidoptera) from Great Nicobar Island, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 122 (1), pp. 105-108 : 106

Genus Mellea Gaede, 1922

1922. Mellea Gaede, Dt. ent. Z. 1922: 34. Type Species Rhodoneura angustifasciata Gaede, 1922 .

Mellea taeniata (Warren, 1908) ( Figure 5 )

1908. Banisia taeniata Warren , Nov. Zool., 15: 327.

Material examined: India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Great Nicobar Island; Galathea , 29.xi.2018 (01 ♀), Steel bridge, East-West Road, 13.xi.2018 (01 ♀), Gobindnagar ,

18.xi.2018 (01 ♂), leg. K.C. Gopi & party.

Description: Wingspan 42-44 mm. Head with antennae filiform, labial pulpi upturned, thorax hairy. General ground colour of head, thorax, forewing and hindwing scarlet with zigzag, black-bordered parallel strips runs from costa to inner margin of both wings, denser in central area.

Distribution: India: Great Nicobar Island (present study); Assam, Sikkim ( Sutton et al., 2015), Vietnam, Thailand ( Sutton et al., 2015).

Remark: First record from the Great Nicobar Island.

Figures

Figures 1-7. Rhodneura pudicula Guenée 1858, 1-2. Adult, 3. Male genitalia, 4. Aedeagus, 5. Mellea taeniata (Warren, 1908), 6. Striglina scitaria (Walker, 1862), 7. Aglaopus decussata (Moore, 1883).