Neobotyodes crocopteralis ( Hampson, 1898 ) 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 : 388-390

Neobotyodes crocopteralis ( Hampson, 1898) , comb. nov.

(Fig: 5–6, 19, 20, 31)

Botyodes crocopteralis Hampson, 1898 ; Proc. Gen. Meet. Sci. Busi. Zoo. Soc., London, 1898: 710.

Description: Male. Wing expanse: 35 mm ( Fig. 5 ).

Head. Vertex fuscous brown, under side white, distinct scales at proboscis. Antennae of males simple, slightly shorter than costal length of forewings.

Thorax. Forewings fuscous brown with an oblique, orange-yellow broad band from middle of costa to anal angle; slightly constricted at middle. Hindwings uniformly fuscous brown. Abdomen. Black.

Male genitalia ( Figs. 19–20 ). Uncus short, almost rectangular with a minute notch at apex, edges setosed; tegumen short; valvae narrow, elongated, tongue shaped, a strong thumb like process from basal half of inner wall; juxta with two broad apical arms; vesica with a curved cornutus having two spines at apex and another long ray of compactly placed small spines.

Female. Wing expanse: 37 mm. ( Fig. 6 ).

Head. Vertex bright golden-yellow; palpi black, white below.

Thorax. Forewings orange with fuscous brown ante-medial spot on median nervure, a reniform at disco-cellular, a post-medial spot below vein Cu 2, whole apical area fuscous brown with rounded inner edge, underside of forewing having basal part of costal area suffused with black. Hindwings with post-medial black spot above vein M 2, having specks above and below it; a spot below vein Cu 2, having speck below it.

Abdomen. Yellow, with black irrorations.

Female genitalia ( Fig. 31 ). Ductus bursae wrinkly sclerotised; corpus bursae membranous, oval.

Material examined: (3 ♂ ♂, 3 ♀ ♀): India: Arunachal Pradesh: Sessa , 11.v.13 — 2 ♂ ♂, 2 ♀ ♀ ; Mizoram: Hmuifang , 1.x.13 — 1♂, 1♀ .

Distribution: North East India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand ( Robinson et al. 1994); Bhutan, ( Irungbam et al. 2016)

Figures

FIGURES 1–6. Adults. 1, Botyodes asialis, ♂, NE India, Mizoram, 2, ditto, ♀, NE India, Mizoram; 3, Botyodes principalis, ♂, NE India, Arunachal Pradesh, 4, ditto, ♀, NE India, Arunachal Pradesh; 5, Neobotyodes crocopteralis, gen. & comb. nov., ♂, NE India, Arunachal Pradesh, 6, ditto, ♀, NE India, Mizoram.

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.