An updated Catalogue of Cossoidea (Lepidoptera) from India
Author
Ahmad, Jalil
0000-0001-7719-864X
Lepidoptera Section, Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, West Bengal, India & jalilahmad 23046 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7719 - 864 X
jalilahmad23046@gmail.com
Author
Joshi, Rahul
0000-0001-8514-1272
Lepidoptera Section, Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, West Bengal, India & joshiarctiidae @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8514 - 1272
joshiarctiidae@gmail.com
Author
Singh, Navneet
0000-0002-6657-7983
Lepidoptera Section, Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, West Bengal, India & nsgill 007 @ gmail. com https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6657 - 7983
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-08-16
5330
3
301
348
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5330.3.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5330.3.1
1175-5326
8254738
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Family
Dudgeoneidae
Adults are medium sized (with wingspan of
28–72 mm
), antennae are unipectinate or rarely bipectinate to tip in both sexes, forewing with reddish brown with circular, silvery white spots (
Edwards
et al
. 1999
). Globally, the family comprises 57 species in six genera (Nieukerken
et al
. 2011) with most of the species reported from Australian and Ethiopian region (
Schulze & Fiedler, 1996
). In
India
, the family is known by a single species only.