Caldubotys caldusalis ( Walker, 1859 ) Singh & Kirti & Singh & Ranjan, 2019

Singh, Navneet, Kirti, Jagbir Singh, Singh, Harsimran & Ranjan, Rahul, 2019, Two new genera for the Botyodes species complex (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae), Zootaxa 4623 (2), pp. 387-395 : 394

Caldubotys caldusalis ( Walker, 1859) , comb. nov.

( Figs. 7–8 , 21–23 , 32 )

Botys caldusalis Walker, 1859 ; Cat. Het. Lep. 8: 650.

Description: Adults yellowish orange. Wing expanse: 34–36 mm ( Figs. 7, 8 ).

Head. Concolourous with adults. Antennae simple.

Thorax. Forewing with costa and basal area slightly suffused with reddish brown, an oblique, outwardly curved ante-medial line, distinctly curved towards inner side from below cell; speak in cell; a dark spot at discocellular; indistinct excurved post-medial line, out-curved between veins M 2 and 2A; a prominent curved sub-marginal spotted line; dark marginal line. Hindwing with basal area straw yellow; an ante-medial line starting from a speck in cell; a curved, dentate medial line from a dark spot at discocellular; followed by an indistinct post-medial line, cilia of both wings fuscous at tip. In females, markings are slightly prominent.

Male genitalia ( Figs. 21–23 ). Uncus petiolated, swan head shaped, tip hairy; tegumen very broad; valvae broad with costa well differentiated, apex rounded; transtilla weakly sclerotised; saccus pointed; aedeagus elongated; vesica with two sclerotised plates.

Female genitalia ( Fig. 32 ). Ductus bursae sclerotised; corpus bursae long, tubular.

Material examined: (4♂♂, 2 ♀ ♀): Sikkim: Golitar , 07.ix.13, 2♂♂, 2 ♀ ♀ ; Mangan , 11.ix.13, 2♂♂ .

Distribution: Sikkim and Assam ( India), Myanmar, Java ( Hampson 1896).

Figures

FIGURES 7–10. Adults.7, Caldubotys caldusalis, gen. & comb. nov., ♂, NE India, Sikkim; 8, ditto, ♀, NE India, Sikkim; 9, Endocrossis flavibasalis, ♂, NE India, Mizoram; 10, Pyrausta purpuralis, ♂ (©Lewis, C. British Lepidoptera, https://british- lepidoptera.weebly.com/007-pyrausta purpuralis.html.).

FIGURES 19–23. Male genitalia. 19, 20, Neobotyodes crocopteralis, gen. & comb. nov. 21–23, Caldubotys caldusalis gen. & comb. nov.

FIGURES 29–32. Female genitalia, 29, Botyodes asialis; 30, Botyodes principalis; 31, Neobotyodes crocopteralis, gen. & comb. nov.; 32, Caldubotys caldusalis, gen. & comb. nov.