Bastilla Swinhoe, 1918

Singh, Navneet, Joshi, Rahul & Ahmad, Jalil, 2018, New record of Bastilla angularis (Boisduval, 1833) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) from Oriental region, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (4) : -

Genus Bastilla Swinhoe, 1918 was established for its type species, Ophiusa redunca Swinhoe 1900 from Australia. Holloway and Miller (2003) reviewed the genus Bastilla and divided it into four sub-groups. Presently, the genus is known by more than 15 valid species distributed Worldwide ( Holloway, 2005; Kononenko and Pinratana, 2005, 2013; Sivasankaran et al., 2012,Gurule and Nikam, 2017).

In this paper, an African species, Bastilla angularis (Boisduval, 1833) is reported for the first time from Oriental region. The species is collected from Mahatma Gandhi nagar, Kankarbagh, Patna (Bihar), G.B. Pant WLS, Rajgir, Bihar and Rajderva (Hazaribagh, Jharkhand), India. B. angularis is a pest of medicinal plant genus, Phyllanthus Linnaeus ( Holloway and Miller, 2003) . Reporting of this species from India may be recognized as an example of exotic pest. But, establishment of B. angularis as a pest in India and its interaction with the host plant needs further confirmation. Images of adult and photographs of male genitalia are also provided.