Description of a New Species of Donda Moore, 1882 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Pantheinae) from the Western Himalayas, India

Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran; Raha, Angshuman; Sanyal, Abesh Kumar; Gayen, Subrata; Chandra, Kailash

Description of a New Species of Donda Moore, 1882 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Pantheinae) from the Western Himalayas, India

2020

Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran | Raha, Angshuman | Sanyal, Abesh Kumar | Gayen, Subrata | Chandra, Kailash

The genus Donda Moore, 1882 (Noctuidae: Pantheinae) consists of six species of which the taxonomic status of two species are doubtful. In the present study, a new species of the genus, viz. Donda unispinosa Bandyopadhyay, Raha & Chandra sp. nov. is described from the Indian Himalayas with a detailed description of male genitalia structure. This brings the legitimate species number to five. A key based on the morphology and male genitalia of all the known species of the genus is also provided here for future confirmation of species.

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