Plusiodonta Guenée, 1852a: 359

Singh, Navneet, Ahmad, Jalil & Raha, Angshuman, 2022, Contribution to the Erebidae fauna of the Great Nicobar Island, India with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), Zootaxa 5165 (1), pp. 79-94 : 84

Genus Plusiodonta Guenée, 1852a: 359

Type species: Plusiodonta chalsytoides Guenée, 1852 (= P. coelonota ( Kollar, 1844)) (Type locality: Java ( Indonesia))

= Gadera Walker, [1858a], 12: 956.

= Deva Walker, [1858a] , 12: 962.

= Odontina Guenée, 1862: 42 . (preoccupied)

= Tafalla Walker, 1869: 42 .

= Tinnodoa Nye, 1975: 483 . (Replacement name for Odontina )

Taxonomic notes: The pantropical genus Plusiodonta hitherto comprises 41 species mainly distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, with few species extending into the temperate latitudes ( Behounek et al. 2017). It is exceptionally diverse in the South East Asia and the Afro-tropics. The genus extends east to Fiji and New Caledonia in the Indo-Australian tropics where few endemic species are found ( Robinson 1975, Holloway 1979). Only two species have so far been reported from India, among which P. coelonota ( Kollar, 1844) shows a wider distribution from the Palaearctic to the Indo-Australian tropics, while, the other species, P. auripicta Moore, 1882 is reported only from the North-eastern part of the country. The members of Plusiodonta have typical forewing shape for Calpinae and golden or silvery irregular patches or spots on varying degrees of brown background of forewing. Labial palpi are upturned with 3 rd segment noticeably narrow and sharply directed from 2 nd segment. In male genitalia, the valva is broad, especially at the distal end, with sometimes angular costal margin and sacculus bearing process from inner margin. Aedeagus is usually long with tubular or bulbous vesica which may have patches of small cornuti.