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 Anoba rigida ( Swinhoe, 1895: 11 ) ( Baniana ) ( Figs 1 , 11–12 ) Type locality: Gilolo [Halmahera, North Maluku Province , Indonesia ] = Bessacta columnaris Warren, 1912 , 19: 52. Material examined: India , Andaman and Nicobar Islands , Great Nicobar Island : South West Road , 1 ♂ , 07.xi.2018 (NZCZSI, 6761/H10); East-West Road, 1 ♂ , 08.xi.2018 (NZCZSI, 6758/H10); 4 km South of Vijay Nagar , 2 ♂ , 12.xi.2018 (NZCZSI, 6760/H10); Steel Bridge, East West Road , 1 ♂ , 13.xi.2018 (NZCZSI, 6762/H10), K.C. Gopi & party leg . Diagnosis: Forewing length: ♂ 17–18 mm . Along with Anoba rigida , A. pectinata and A. polyspila have typical mosaics of archipelagic dark greenish-brown patches on pale brown forewings which readily separate these three species from the other congeners. Externally, A. rigida differs from A. pectinata by the presence of fasciculate antennae in male (narrowly bipectinate in A. pectinata ), forewing with the basal dark patch more broken, and the medial patch well separated from the submarginal and apical patches (more or less contiguous in A. pectinata ) and paler hindwing. In male genitalia A. rigida is conspicuously distinct from A. pectinata by the upwardly curved rectangular valva with a thumb like distal costal process on well sclerotized costa, shorter and stouter aedeagus, and vesica with several diverticula and a cluster of many strong cornuti distally. In comparison to other two species, A. polyspila is darker, with slightly smaller dark green patches on forewing, and the medial patch, in particular, does not touch the inner margin completely (which is well extended up to the inner margin in A. rigida and A. pectinata ). Moreover, the hindwing in A. polyspila is darker towards the outer margin. Distribution: Indonesia ( Java , Riau , Sumatra ), Malaysia (Malay Peninsula, Borneo) ( Holloway 2005 ), India (the Great Nicobar Island) (present study). Remarks: The present record is the seventh Anoba species from India and first from any Indian island. Anoba rigida is exclusively a Sundanian species preferring lowland open habitats in secondary, coastal and riverine forests with altitude ranging below 200 m ( Holloway 2005 ).