Adrapsa ablualis Walker, (1859)

Ahmad, Jalil, Shah, Suresh Kr., Mishra, Purnendu, Joshi, Rahul & Singh, Navneet, 2023, New record of moths (Lepidoptera) from India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 123 (1), pp. 13-20 : 15

7. Adrapsa ablualis Walker, (1859) ( Figure 7 )

[1859]. Adrapsa ablualis Walker, List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. , 16: 170

Material examined: Bihar: VTR: Naurangia Don, 13.x.2017, 01 ex. (Coll. Singh and Ahmad).

Diagnosis: Adults brown, forewing with costal line yellow; both wings with three transverse oblique lines, submarginal line pale, indistinct; forewing reniform with white spot. Labial palpi long, upcurved in front of the head.

Distribution: India, Bihar (present study); Thailand, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, China, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Borneo, Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea, Vanuatu, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Bismarck Archipelago, Australia ( Kononenko & Pinratana, 2013).

Figures

Figures 1-7. Adults: 1. Nosophora maculalis (Leech, 1889), 2. Oreta loochooana Swinhoe, 1902, 3. Eugoa brun- nea Hampson, 1914, 4. Fossia melanandra (Černý, 2009), 5. Miltochrista roseogrisea (Rothschild, 1913), 6. Spilosoma howqua Moore, 1877, 7. Adrapsa ablualis Walker, (1859).