Chunra Distant

Genus Chunra Distant

Chunra Distant 1908; 193; Webb, 1983 a: 225; Webb 1983b: 74–75. Type species: Iassus puncticosta Walker, by original designation.

Diagnosis. The genus can be recognized by the following set of characters (Webb 1983b): Face including eyes long. Lateral frontal sutures incurved. Labium long, exceeding beyond metacoxae. Forewing with brown and yellow patches on costal margin and veins; with three subapical cells, appendix large extending around wing apex and reaching costal margin. Male pygofer with long vertical fold from dosal margin and lateral hyaline region and process from each dorsoposterior corner. Male segment X lateral arms strongly produced ventrally. Female valvula I with imbricate sculpturing compared to transversely striate sculpturing in other genera of Indioceini.

Remarks. Distant (1908) recorded the genus and its type species from “Tenasserim: Myitta (Doherty)” in addition to “Malaya Archipelago: Morty (Wallace, Brit. Mus.)”. However, Webb (1983 a, 1983b) reported that the genus is distributed in Tropical Africa, Indonesia, and NE Australia. We have not examined any specimen of this genus from the Indian subcontinent. It is included for making the identification of the genus easy if someone collects it in the subcontinent.