Nishada Moore 1878
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- 1. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, WB, India. & nsgill 007 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6657 - 7983
- 2. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, WB, India. & jalilahmad 23046 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7719 - 864 X
- 3. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, WB, India. & adroitangshuman @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6992 - 7056
Description
Genus Nishada Moore, 1878: 23
Type species: Nishada flabrifera Moore, 1878 (Type locality: Calcutta [Kolkata, India])
= Petalopleura Meyrick, 1889: 458.
Taxonomic note: The genus Nishada Moore, 1878 was erected as monotypic for its type species, N. flabrifera under the subfamily Lithosiinae (Lithosiidae) (currently recognised as tribe Lithosiini) from Calcutta [Kolkata], India. Presently, the genus represents 20 species (including the nominotypical subspecies) and one subspecies distributed mainly in the Indo-Australian tropics and rarely in the higher latitudes, such as in Nepal and North-eastern Himalaya of the Palaearctic zone (Holloway 2001, Joshi et al. 2016). Of which, four species are known from India, N. chilomorpha adunca Holloway, 2001, N. flabrifera Moore, 1878, N. pseudochilomorpha Joshi & N. Singh in Joshi et al., 2016 and N. rotundipennis Walker, 1862 (Singh et al. 2021e). Majority of the Nishada have unmarked whitish-yellow or beige wings with characteristically elongated forewings and short hindwings. In males, the shortness of the hindwing is more evident where the androconial bearing subcostal area is extended and sometimes folded. The male genitalia generally bear a large spine-like process originating subbasally from the valva costa.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Nishada
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Moore
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nishada Moore, 1878 sec. Singh, Ahmad & Raha, 2022
References
- Moore, F. (1878) A revision of certain genera of European and Asiatic Lithosiidae, with characters of new Genera and Species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1878, 3 - 36, 3 pls. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1878. tb 07927. x
- Meyrick, E. (1889) On some Lepidoptera from New Guinea. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 455 - 522. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1889. tb 00932. x
- Holloway, J. D. (2001) The Moths of Borneo: Part 7; Family Arctiidae: Lithosiinae. Malayan Nature Journal, Southdene Sdn Bhd., 297 pp., 8 pls.
- Joshi, R., Kirti, J. S. & Singh, N. (2016) A new species of genus Nishada Moore, 1878 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) from India. Zootaxa, 4179 (1), 128 - 132. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4179.1.10
- Walker, F. (1862) Catalogue of the Heterocerous Lepidopterous Insects collected at Sarawak, in Borneo, by Mr. A. R. Wallace, with Descriptions of New Species. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Zoology, 6, 82 - 145 + 171 - 198. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1862. tb 00945. x
- Singh, N., Joshi, R., Kirti, J. S., Bisht, S. S. & Param, H. S. (2021 e) A catalogue of Indian Arctiinae (Erebidae, Lepidoptera). Zootaxa, 5058 (1), 001 - 118. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5058.1.1