Pydnella (Phalera) birmicola, Bryk, 1949

Chandra, Kailash, Mazumder, Arna, Sanyal, Abesh Kumar, Ash, Anirban, Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran, Mallick, Kaushik & Raha, Angshuman, 2018, Catalogue of Indian Notodontidae Stephens, 1829 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), Zootaxa 4505 (1), pp. 1-84 : 46

Phalera (Phalera) birmicola Bryk, 1949

[ Fig. 4 (A–D)]

Phalera sangana birmicola Bryk, 1949 ; 42 A: 7.

Phalera sundana Holloway, 1982: 201.

Phalera (Phalera) birmicola ; Schintlmeister, 2013; 11: 329.

TL: Washaung [Myitkyina, Myanmar]; TD: SRMNH

Distribution: India: Uttarakhand. Elsewhere: Indonesia (Borneo), Malaysia, Myanmar.

Material Examined: Uttarakhand, Pithoragarh dist., Askot WLS, Jauljivi (29.7508°N; 80.3788°E, 632 m), 19.ix.2016 (1♂), Coll. A.K. Sanyal & Party.

Diagnosis: Half of forewing: ♂ 38mm. Phalera (Phalera) birmicola belongs to the grotei complex of species, which is hard to distinguish morphologically from P. grotei Moore, 1860 . P. birmicola differs in having abdomen with alternating fuscous brown and yellowish bands and fuscous brown hindwings.

In male genitalia, birmicola differs from grotei in having thicker and tapered uncus, deeper and cup-shaped groove in socii and finer costal flaps of valve.

Note: New record to India.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Notodontidae new records to India. (A–D) Phalera (Phalera) birmicola Bryk, 1949, A—Adult ♂, B—Ventral view of ♂ genitalia, C—Aedeagus, D—8 th Sternite & tergite; (E–H) Spatalina desiccata stolida Schintlmeister, 2007, E—Adult ♂, F—Ventral view of ♂ genitalia, G—Aedeagus, H—8 th Sternite & tergite; (I–L) Hiradonta hannemanni Schintlmeister, 1989, I—Adult ♂, J—Ventral view of ♂ genitalia, K—Aedeagus, L—8 th Sternite & tergite; (M–P) Kamalia tattakana (Matsumura, 1927), M—Adult ♂, N—Ventral view of ♂ genitalia, O—Aedeagus, P—8 th Sternite & tergite.