A new species and five new records of Erebidae (Lepidoptera) from India

Abstract

In the present paper, we examined Erebidae specimens collected from different parts of India, and describe a new species in Arctiinae, Miltochrista terrarega sp. nov. and report five species new to the Indian fauna: Ericeia sobria Walker, [1858] in Erebinae; Euproctis cryptosticta Collenette, 1934, Artaxa kanshireia (Wileman, 1910), Nygmia ganesa Kishida, 2020 and N. hanuman Kishida, 2020 in Lymantriinae. Genitalia of B. calopasa from India is also provided. We studied, for the first time, the females of N. ganesa and N. hanuman, and the female genitalia of A. kanshireia and E. cryptosticta. The diagnoses of all the seven species along with their habitus and genitalia illustrations are provided along with the distributions.