Neadeloides glaucoptera ( Hampson, 1896 )

Singh, Navneet, Kirti, Jagbir Singh, Chandra, Kailash, Singh, Harsimran & Ranjan, Rahul, 2019, On the taxonomy of the genus Neadeloides Klima, 1939 (Crambidae: Pyraustinae) with description of a new species from India, Zootaxa 4664 (2), pp. 285-292 : 288-289

Neadeloides glaucoptera ( Hampson, 1896)

(Figs: 5, 9)

Adeloides glaucoptera Hampson, 1896 , Fauna of Br. India, Moths, 4: 395.

Type locality: Bhutan .

Type depository: NHMUK, London .

Material examined: 1♂, 07.ix.2013, NE India, Sikkim, Golitar, leg. H. Singh (Coll. NZCZSI) ; 1♂, 19.ix.2013, NE India, Sikkim, Yuksom, leg. H. Singh (Coll. NZCZSI) ; 4 ♂, 11–12.v.2013, NE India, Arunachal Pradesh, Sessa, leg. H. Singh (Coll. NZCZSI) .

Taxonomic note: Neadeloides glaucoptera was previously recorded from Bhutan. However, Mathew (2006) included N. glaucoptera in his Inventory of Indian Pyralids, but without mentioning of any distributional records of N. glaucoptera from India or any note regarding its first record from India. Here, for the first time, we record N. glaucoptera with details of its distributional records from Sikkim ( India).

Description. Wing span: Male— 46 mm. Adults dark silver grey; hindwing with costal area and inner margin comparatively paler. Male genitalia ( Fig. 9 ) with uncus inverted u-shape, strongly concave on posterior side, small latero-subapical process at both sides, apex setose; tegumen broad; transtilla membranous. Valva with basal half membranous, distal half sclerotized; ventral valva margin outwardly angled at middle, tip of the angle ending in a small spine; an elongated, small, setosed ridge at the centre of the inner wall; distal saccular process hooked, ventro-apical edge of sacculus having a small outgrowth; juxta small with lateral extensions; saccus deep v-shaped; aedeagus with a bulbous coecum on the anterior end and an elongated spine-like sclerotization as well as a deep longitudinal recess in the apodeme at the posterior end; vesica with a bundle of long, fine spine-like cornuti.

Distribution: India (Sikkim), Bhutan

Figures

FIGURES 8–11. Neadeloides spp.: Male genitalia. 8, N. cinerealis, male, Golitar, Sikkim; 9, N. glaucoptera, male, Golitar, Sikkim; 10, N. nubilus, male, holotype, Golitar, Sikkim; 11, N. nubilus, male, paratype, Rishap, Neora Valley NP, West Bengal.