Recharacterisation of genus Curoba Walker (Arctiinae, Erebidae, Lepidoptera)
Author
Singh, Navneet
Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India; Emails: nsgill 007 @ gmail. com; jalilahmad 23046 @ gmail. com
Author
Joshi, Rahul
Zoological Survey of India, Gangetic Plains Regional Centre, Sector- 8, BH Colony, Patna - 800026, Bihar, India; Email: joshiarctiidae @ gmail. com
Author
Ahmad, Jalil
Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India; Emails: nsgill 007 @ gmail. com; jalilahmad 23046 @ gmail. com
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Records of the Zoological Survey of India
2022
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journal article
10.26515/rzsi/v122/i1/2022/166469
2581-8686
13184836
Genus
Curoba
Walker, 1864
[1865]
1864 [1865]. Walker,
List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus
.,
31
: 272.
Type
species
:
Curoba fasciata
Walker, [1865]
1864 (junior subjective synonym of
Phalaena sangarida
Stoll, 1782
)
Diagnosis:
Antennae bipectinate in males, serrate in females. Forewing black-brown with an irregular whitish oblique band from middle of costa and reaching tornus. Labial palpi porrect. Hind tibia with two pairs of tibial spurs. Male genitalia with uncus deeply bifurcated. Valva c-shaped outer wall strongly sclerotizedin the form of a narrow rod-like structure, inner wall membraneous, conjoint with basally rectangular and apically bowl-shaped juxta. Aedeagus curved; vesica elongated with long series, from base to subapical, of minute spines at one long edge. Female genitalia with pair of pheromonal gland, papilla anales squarish, posterion apophyses slightly longer than anterion apophyses; corpus bursae longer than ductus bursae.
Distribution
: South
India
(Nilgiris,
Tamil Nadu
,
Karnataka
), Srilanka, [SE Asia mainland].