Fossia melanandra ( Černý, 2009 )

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 : 14-15

4. Fossia melanandra ( Černý, 2009) ( Figure 4 )

2009. Barsine punicea melanandra Černý, Moths of Thailand, 6: 69.

Material examined: Bihar: VTR: Bhediyari, gate, 09.x.2017, 01 ex. (♀) (Coll. Singh and Ahmad) .

Diagnosis: Female adult with forewing crimson, ante media and medial line joins at centre, dark streaks from post medial lines are reduced as compare to males, terminal are and costal margin black; Hindwing crimson, with terminal black suffusion.

Distribution: India, Bihar (present study); Thailand ( Černý & Pinratana, 2009).

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).