Contribution to the Erebidae fauna of the Great Nicobar Island, India with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) Author Singh, Navneet Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, WB, India. & nsgill 007 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6657 - 7983 nsgill007@gmail.com Author Ahmad, Jalil 0000-0001-7719-864X Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, WB, India. & jalilahmad 23046 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7719 - 864 X jalilahmad23046@gmail.com Author Raha, Angshuman Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, WB, India. & adroitangshuman @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6992 - 7056 adroitangshuman@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2022 2022-07-13 5165 1 79 94 journal article 96834 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.1.3 6834caf1-f376-4b61-90a0-760648a94a68 1175-5326 6825519 AD1D7E0A-E190-42D5-A468-7E6E696727D1 Anereuthina renosa Hübner, 1823: 23 ( Figs 10 , 26) Type locality: Java ( Indonesia ) = Hypaetra lilach Guenée, 1852b , 7 : 260. = Hypaetra occularia Swinhoe, 1890: 246 . Material examined: India , Andaman and Nicobar Islands , Great Nicobar Island , Bird Watching Point , 1 ♀ , 14.xi.2018 , K.C. Gopi & party leg. (NZCZSI, 6688/H10) . Diagnosis: Forewing length: ♀ 21 mm . The species is characterised by chocolaty brown colour with roughly triangular forewing, patterned with pale mauve fasciation, often indistinct. In the centre of the forewing, just beyond the lower angle of cell, there is a large black elliptical patch bordered antero-basally with dusty olive green scales. The hindwing is duller brown with a double, shallowly excavate zone at the margin near the anal angle. However, the species is highly variable in the extent and intensity of the black patch at the centre of the forewing ( Holloway 2005 ). Female genitalia is characterised by slender, long, sclerotized ductus bursae and large, oval corpus bursae with scobination, especially near the base. Distribution: Indonesia ( Java ) ( Hübner 1823 ), India ( Meghalaya , Andaman Island) (www.mothsofindia.org), Malaysia (Borneo), Myanmar , Philippines ( Holloway 2005 ), the Great Nicobar (present study). Remarks: Present report is the first record of A. renosa from the Nicobar Islands . The distribution of this species in India is documented on www.mothsofindia.org through photographic evidence from South Garo Hills, Meghalaya and Port Blair, Andaman Islands (Sondhi et al . 2021). But we could not review any published document regarding its distribution in India . The species is recorded between wide altitudinal ranges from lowland dipterocarp forest at 150 m in Nicobar (present study), to uphill montane forest at 1618 m altitude in Borneo, Malaysia ( Holloway 2005 ).