New records of pyraloid moths (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) from India

Abstract

Four species of the family Crambidae (superfamily Pyraloidea) are reported for the first time from India, based on the material collected from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 2018–2020, namely Glyphodes cosmarcha Meyrick, 1887, Palpita cirralis (Swinhoe, 1897), Pachynoa xanthochyta (Turner, 1933) and Pagyda arbiter (Butler, 1879). The diagnoses and the distributional data on these species are provided; the male and female genital structures are illustrated. The female of G. cosmarcha and the male and female genitalia of P. cirralis are described for the first time.

Taxonomic Description, Distribution, and Control Measures of Plodia interpunctella (Hübner, 1813) in Kashmir Valley, India

“…The work on Indian Pyraloidea was initiated by Hampson, in 1896 in the "Fauna of British India" series that includes the distribution and taxonomy of 1136 species. Up to date, a number of authors from India and across the globe have occasionally reported and described many new species and new records from the superfamily Pyraloidea [2][3][4][5]. The moth fauna of the northwestern Himalayas, particularly the Kashmir valley, has not been documented well besides being aided by some checklists from British India and a few reports from the recent past.…”