Aroriella gobardhani, Ahmad & Yakovlev & Joshi & Müller & Singh, 2024

Ahmad, Jalil, Yakovlev, Roman V., Joshi, Rahul, Müller, Günter C. & Singh, Navneet, 2024, A new genus and two new species of Cossidae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea) from India and Pakistan, Zootaxa 5538 (5), pp. 473-478 : 475

Aroriella gobardhani sp. nov.

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Type material. Holotype. [ INDIA] ♂, Bihar, Valmiki Tiger Reserve (N 27.327497, E 84.309064), Gobardhana, 18.iii.2023, Jalil Ahmad leg ( NZCZSI).

Description. Male. Forewing length 13 mm. Antennae unipectinate; thorax and abdomen grey, covered with dense scales. Forewing grey, basal and inner region dark grey, postmedial dark line, outwardly oblique from costa to anal angle; another line from the mid of the inner margin to meet the postmedial line at vein M 3; a zigzag, subterminal line runs almost parallel to the outer margin. Hindwing uniformly greyish.

Male genitalia. Uncus wide, short, apically semicircular; gnathos arms thick, relatively short, gnathos medium-sized, apically covered with fine spikes; valva short, cup-like, apical end semicircular, membranous, short (shorter than in the next species), distal portion of mid costal process is semicircular robust spine like; transtilla process medium-sized, slightly curved, narrowing to acute apex; juxta with two pairs of lateral processes—the wide, leaflike ones diverged at an obtuse angle and directed dorsally and the tapered ones directed abdominally; saccus semicircular, robust; phallus almost straight, lanceolate, vesica aperture in dorso-apical position, about half of phallus in length, vesica without cornuti.

Female unknown.

Diagnosis. From the second species of the genus described below, it is clearly distinct in the more modified forewing pattern, slightly bigger size, the shape of the costal process, and the poorly curved transtilla process.

Distribution. India: Bihar (Valmiki Tiger Reserve).

Etymology. Name of the new species is epithet of its type locality.

Figures

FIGURES 1−6. Aroriella adult specimens and male genitalia: 1. A. gobardhani sp. nov., Holotype (NZCZSI); 2. A. grimaldii sp. nov., Holotype (GMF); 3. A. grimaldii sp. nov., Paratype (GMF); 4. A. gobardhani sp. nov., Holotype; 5. A. grimaldii sp. nov., Holotype, slide Prozorov 2022/0424; 6. A. grimaldii sp. nov., Paratype, slide Prozorov 2022/0423.