Endotricha melanobasis Hampson, 1916: 358

Ranjan, Rahul, Singh, Navneet & Kirti, Jagbir Singh, 2023, On the taxonomy of genus Endotricha Zeller (Pyralinae, Pyralidae, Lepidoptera) with description of three new species from India, Zootaxa 5323 (1), pp. 56-70 : 60

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( Figs 2 View FIGURES 1–8 , 18 View FIGURES 17–22 )

Type locality: [ India,] Khasis [Khasi Hills], Assam [now in Meghalaya]

Material examined. India, Sikkim: Golitar , 1 ♁, 30.iv.2014 (8765/H10) , Mangan , 3 ♁, 25.iv.2014 (8766/H10);

Uttarakhand: Chirbatiya , 4 ♁, 03.vi.2014 (8767/H10), R. Ranjan leg. (NZCZSI) .

Diagnosis: Externally, E. melanobasis ( Fig. 2 View FIGURES 1–8 ) is closely similar to E. fuscobasalis ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1–8 ) but is distinct by the shorter wingspan, most of the rust brown scales on the wing of E. fuscobasalis are replaced with fuscous scales, the elongated subcostal patch of hindwing is brownish, which is blackish in E. fuscobasalis . In male genitalia, E. melanobasis ( Fig. 18 View FIGURES 17–22 ) is distinct from E. fuscobasalis ( Fig. 17 View FIGURES 17–22 ) by the presence of a small, robust, spined, subbasal process on the ventral wall of the dorsal portion of the valva; juxta arrow like (inverted triangle with a central long process) (in E. fuscobasalis juxta is deeply pot-shaped with two latero-apical patches of spines), and the saccular process shorter.

Distribution: India (Khasis [Meghalaya] ( Hampson 1916), Indian subcontinent (North) ( Whalley 1963), Sikkim, Uttarakhand (present study)), Nepal ( Yamanaka 1998), Borneo ( Sutton et al. 2015).