Nishada Moore

Joshi, Rahul, Kirti, Jagbir S. & Singh, Navneet, 2016, A new species of genus Nishada Moore, 1878 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) from India, Zootaxa 4179 (1), pp. 128-132 : 128-129

Nishada Moore

Moore, 1878, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878: 23

Synonym: Petalopleura Meyrick (Type species: Petalopleura phaeocephala Meyrick, 1889, a junior synonym of impervia Walker, 1865 ; type locality: New Guinea).

Type species: Nishada flabrifera Moore.

Distribution. Sri Lanka, Mynamar, Thailand, Java, India, Malaysia, Nepal, China

Diagnosis. Adults:wings unpatterned, yellow to brownish; hindwings short, shortness more developed in males. Males with a paired pouch-like structure on third abdominal tergite. Male genitalia: valvae with a long spine like process arising from costa. Female genitalia: corpus bursae spherical but may have a neck continuing from the long and narrow ductus bursae; two signa present ( Holloway 2001; Kirti & Singh 2015).