Curoba sangarida ( Stoll [1782] ) In Cramer [1782]

Singh, Navneet, Joshi, Rahul & Ahmad, Jalil, 2022, Recharacterisation of genus Curoba Walker (Arctiinae, Erebidae, Lepidoptera), Records of the Zoological Survey of India 122 (1), pp. 109-111 : 109-111

Curoba sangarida ( Stoll [1782]) In Cramer [1782] ( Figures 1-6 )

1782. Phalaena sangarida Stoll, Uitl. Kapellen , 4 (32-32): 181.

Recharacterisation of genus Curoba Walker ( Arctiinae , Erebidae , Lepidoptera )

1782. Phalaena (Noctua) mopsa Drury, Illust. Nat. Hist. Exot. Insects , 3: pl. 3, f. 3.

1864 [1865]. Curoba fasciata Walker, List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. , 31: 272.

Type locality: not stated. Watson et al. (1980) mentioned as [S. E. Asia mainland]

Description: Adult. Labial palpi porrect. Head and thorax brownish; collar and abdomen brownish, outlined with crimson; underside of abdomen crimson with lateral spots. Forewing black-brown with an irregular whitish oblique band from middle of costa and reaching tornus. Hindwing with basal area brown, outer area crimson; an irregular, broken post-medial band of black spots; outer margin brown, streaks between band and outer area brown. Male genitalia with uncus deeply bifurcated. Tegumen broad slightly longer than uncus, concave ventrally. Vinculum narrow. Saccus minutely delevoped, U-shaped. Transtilla sclerotized connecting at middle of valva and apex of juxta. Valva c-shaped outer wall strongly slreotised in the form of a narrow rod-like structure, inner wall membraneous, conjoint with basally rectangular and apically bowl-shaped juxta; apical half of valva represented by curved rod-like structure only, basal saccular process bursae long, slender tube like; corpus bursae longer than ductus bursae, cylindrical, with pair of small sclerotized signum near junction of ductus bursae and corpus bursae; ductus seminalis arising almost from middle of the corpus bursae.

Material examined: India: Tamil Nadu, Salem, Kalrayan Hills, Kunoor , 16.x.2019, 3 females, N11.43423 ’, E78.37323 ’, 1062m. (Coll. R. Joshi, NZC, GPRC / ZSI, Patna). Srilanka: [Srilanka] Ceylon, Dambulla , 7.ix.1910, 3 females, 1 male (Coll. Green, NZC, ZSI, Kolkata) prominent, thumb like. Aedeagus curved; vesica elongated with long series, from base to subapical, of minute spines at one long edge; ductus seminalis entering sub apically. Female genitalia with pair of pheromonal gland, papilla anales squarish, posterion apophyses slightly longer than anterion apophyses; ostium bursae sclerotized; ductus

Figures

Figures 1-5. Curoba sangarida (Stoll, [1782]). 1. adult male. 2. adult female. 3. male genitalia. 4. Aedeagus. 5. female genitalia.

Figure 6. Live imago of Curoba sangarida (Stoll, 1782).