Contribution to the Erebidae fauna of the Great Nicobar Island, India with description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea)

Abstract

In the present paper, we describe two new species, Garudinia shompen sp. nov. (Arctiinae) and Plusiodonta nicobarensis sp. nov. (Calpinae) and report five new species records for India: Nishada sambara (Moore, 1859), Teulisna chiloides Walker, 1862 (Arctiinae), Tamba cosmoloma Prout, 1928, T. occidinawa Holloway, 2005 (Boletobiinae) and Anoba rigida (Swinhoe, 1895) (Anobinae), collected from the Great Nicobar Island. Except Garudinia, all the other taxa studied herein are documented for the first time from the Great Nicobar Island. Detailed description of new species, diagnoses of all the included species with similar congeners along with habitus images and genitalia illustrations and their distributional notes are provided.