Description of a new species from the genus Eugoa Walker, 1858 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) from the Solomon Islands

Abstract

The genus Eugoa Walker, 1858 belongs to the tribe Lithosiini and occurs across the Old World, excluding the Western Palearctic Region. Currently, it contains around 120 species, most of them distributed across Asia (Bucsek 2016a, b; Dubatolov & Bucsek 2016; Schaus 1922). Ten additional species have been described from Australasia (Bethune-Baker 1904; Rothschild 1915). Since the 19th century, several authors have addressed the taxonomy of the genus Eugoa (Buscek 2008, 2012, 2016a, b; Černý & Bucsek 2014; Hampson 1891, 1898, 1900; Rothschild 1915; Seitz 1914; Van Eecke 1930), but only a few described their habitat preferences (e.g. Holloway 2001). These small to medium sized moths with brown, or brown—cream coloured forewings inhabit a wide range of forest types (e.g. alluvial, dipterocarp, heath, kerangas, etc.) from mangroves and lowland-coastal forests (about 300m asl) up to upper montane forests (about 1500 m asl). Unfortunately, life history data for species in the genus Eugoa still remain unavailable.

On the taxonomy of the genus Eugoa Walker (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) with a description of a new species from the Andaman Islands (India)

“…Six species are also known from Africa (Kühne 2007) but their generic placement is unclear and needs revision (Volynkin et al, in prep.). A number of species of Eugoa were described during the last two decades (Fang 2000;Holloway 2001;Bucsek 2008Bucsek , 2012Bucsek , 2016bČerný & Pinratana 2009;Dubatolov & Bucsek 2013;2016;Černý & Bucsek 2014;Kirti & Singh 2016;Bayarsaikhan et al 2018Bayarsaikhan et al , 2019Bucsek & Rindoš 2018;Volynkin et al 2018;Bucsek 2020). Nevertheless, some groups of the genus are still in need of revision.…”

A new Hyblaeidae species from Solomon Islands. Studies of Hyblaeidae 4 (Insecta: Lepidoptera)

“…Not much is known about the Pacific Islands Insect fauna (e. g. YANO, 1963;ROBINSON, 1975;FILARDI et al, 1999;TENNET, 1999). A new Arctiinae species of the genus Eugoa Walker, 1858 (Erebidae: Arctiinae) was recently described by BUCSEK & RINDOS (2018).…”