Lithosia distorta Moore, 1872

Joshi, Rahul, Kirti, Jagbir Singh & Singh, Navneet, 2015, Two new species of genus Zadadra Moore (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) from India, Florida Entomologist 98 (2), pp. 536-536 : 536

Lithosia distorta Moore, 1872 (by monotypy)

1 Department of Agriculture, Baba Farid College, Bathinda - 151002, Punjab, India

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2 Department of Zoology and Environmental Sciences, Punjabi University, Patiala-147002, Punjab, India

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3 Zoological Survey of India, Gangetic Plains Regional Centre, Sector – 8, Bahadurpur Housing Colony, Patna-800 026, Bihar, India E-mail: [e-mail]

DISTRIBUTION

India, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Nepal.

DIAGNOSIS

Genus Zadadra Moore is closely allied to genus Prabhasa Moore. The main synapomorphic characters for both the genera are reduced juxta and transtilla forming an arch above aedeagus. But are distinct due to uncus long and narrow and sacculus and cucullus wide in Zadadra Moore and uncus slightly S-curved; sacculus almost fused by their ventral edges, their apices upturned; cucullus noticeably shorter than sacculus in Prabhasa Moore ( Dubatolov & Zolotuhin, 2011) .