Striglina scitaria (Walker, 1862)

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

Striglina scitaria (Walker, 1862) ( Figure 6 )

1862. Drepanodes scitaria Walker, List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. , 26: 1488-1489.

Material examined: India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Great Nicobar Island, Laxminagar, 11.xi.2018 (02 ♂), Watch tower, 06.xi.2018 (01 ♂, 01 ♀), Bird watching point, 14.xi.2018 (01 ♀, 01 ♂), Steel bridge, East West Road , 13.xi.2018 (01 ♀), leg. K. C. Gopi & party .

Description: Wing span 20-24 mm. Head, collar, thorax and abdomen scarlet; antennae filiform; labial palpi upturned. Adult with ground color pale scarlet with both wings uniformly striated with brown. A purplish red diagonal line crossing both wings which runs from before apex of forewing to the inner margin of hindwing.

Distribution: India: Nicobar Island, Assam, Andaman Islands, ( Sutton et al., 2015); China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Goa, Nepal, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, West Malaysia, Brunei, Sabah, Sarawak, Indonesia (Java, Bali, Sulawesi), Philippines, Australia, Fiji ( Sutton et al., 2015).

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).