A new genus and two new species of Cossidae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea) from India and Pakistan Author Ahmad, Jalil Zoological Survey of India, M-Block New Alipore, Kolkata 700 053, West Bengal, India. Author Yakovlev, Roman V. Altai State University, pr. Lenina 61, Barnaul, 656049, Russia. & Tomsk State University, Laboratory of Biodiversity and Ecology, Lenin pr. 36, 634050 Tomsk, Russia. & Western Caspian University, 31, Istiglaliyyat Street, Baku, Azerbaijan. Author Joshi, Rahul Zoological Survey of India, M-Block New Alipore, Kolkata 700 053, West Bengal, India. Author Müller, Günter C. University of Sciences, Techniques and Technology of Bamako, BP 1805 Bamako, Mali. & Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Hadassah Medical School, The Hebrew University, Kalman Ya’akov Man St., 91120 Jerusalem, Israel. Author Singh, Navneet Zoological Survey of India, M-Block New Alipore, Kolkata 700 053, West Bengal, India. text Zootaxa 2024 2024-11-19 5538 5 473 478 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5538.5.7 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5538.5.7 1175-5326 14239999 6A02A5ED-933B-4F41-8954-40C80A689FDB Aroriella gobardhani sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 917E4594-DB0D-427D-8987-2551116DE271 ( Figures 1, 4 ) Type material. Holotype . [ INDIA ] ♂ , Bihar , Valmiki Tiger Reserve ( N 27.327497 , E 84.309064 ), Gobardhana , 18.iii.2023 , Jalil Ahmad leg ( NZCZSI ). Description. Male. Forewing length 13 mm . Antennae unipectinate; thorax and abdomen grey, covered with dense scales. Forewing grey, basal and inner region dark grey, postmedial dark line, outwardly oblique from costa to anal angle; another line from the mid of the inner margin to meet the postmedial line at vein M 3 ; a zigzag, subterminal line runs almost parallel to the outer margin. Hindwing uniformly greyish. Male genitalia . Uncus wide, short, apically semicircular; gnathos arms thick, relatively short, gnathos medium-sized, apically covered with fine spikes; valva short, cup-like, apical end semicircular, membranous, short (shorter than in the next species), distal portion of mid costal process is semicircular robust spine like; transtilla process medium-sized, slightly curved, narrowing to acute apex; juxta with two pairs of lateral processes—the wide, leaflike ones diverged at an obtuse angle and directed dorsally and the tapered ones directed abdominally; saccus semicircular, robust; phallus almost straight, lanceolate, vesica aperture in dorso-apical position, about half of phallus in length, vesica without cornuti. Female unknown. Diagnosis . From the second species of the genus described below, it is clearly distinct in the more modified forewing pattern, slightly bigger size, the shape of the costal process, and the poorly curved transtilla process. Distribution. India : Bihar (Valmiki Tiger Reserve). Etymology. Name of the new species is epithet of its type locality.