Agrotera basinotata Hampson 1891
Authors/Creators
- 1. National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, State Health Society, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, IN- 744101, India. Z sumitkumarb 3850 @ gmail. com https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1110 - 2083
- 2. Zoological Survey of India-Andaman Nicobar Regional Centre, Port Blair - 744104, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Z c _ sivaperuman 1 @ rediffmail. com https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3582 - 7767
Description
Agrotera basinotata Hampson, 1891 (Figs 2A, 4A, 5A)
Agrotera basinotata Hampson, 1891:137. TL: India (Nilgiris).
Material examined. 1♂, INDIA, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, Watch Tower, 08-XI-2018, coll. K.C. Gopi and Party (Reg. No. ZSI / ANRC /T-16621); 1♂, INDIA, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, Steel Bridge, 22-XI-2018, coll. K.C. Gopi and Party (Reg. No. ZSI / ANRC /T-16622); 1♀, INDIA, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, Watch Tower, 08-XI-2018, coll. K.C. Gopi and Party (Reg. No. ZSI / ANRC /T-16620); 1♂, INDIA, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, Bird watching Point, Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, 14-XI-2018, coll. K.C. Gopi and Party (Reg. No. ZSI / ANRC /T-16619).
Diagnosis. Wingspan 10 mm in males. Agrotera basionata is closely similar to Agrotera nemoralis (Scopoli, 1763) in external appearance but can be separated in the male genitalia by the undivided valva, Vshaped saccus, triangularly pointed uncus and stout phallus narrowing distally, with broad apical region with numerous spines.
Distribution. Sri Lanka, India (Punjab, Assam, Meghalaya, Niligiri Hills, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, Great Nicobar Island—Present Study), Burma, Thailand, Malaysia (West Malaysia, Sabah, Indonesia), Taiwan, China, Japan, Australia (Chaovalit & Pinkaew, 2020; Reddy & Murthy, 2021; Shaffer et al., 1996; Whitaker et al., 2017).
Remarks. This is the first record of Agrotera basinotata from the Nicobar group of Islands, a significant range extension for this species within India. This finding underscores the need for continued biodiversity surveys in this understudied region. Representative individuals of this species were observed in traps placed in the primary forests of the Great Nicobar Islands.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZSI, ANRC
- Event date
- 2018-11-08 , 2018-11-14 , 2018-11-22
- Verbatim event date
- 2018-11-08 , 2018-11-14 , 2018-11-22
- Scientific name authorship
- Hampson
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Crambidae
- Genus
- Agrotera
- Species
- basinotata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Agrotera basinotata Hampson, 1891 sec. Rao & Sivaperuman, 2025
References
- Hampson, G. F. (1891) The Lepidoptera Heterocera of the Nilgiri district. Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum. Printed by order of the trustees, London. i - iv, 1-144, pls 139 - 156.
- Chaovalit, S. & Pinkaew, N. (2020) Checklist of tribe Spilomelini (Lepidoptera, Pyraustinae) in Thailand. Agriculture and Natural Resources, 54 (5), 499-506.
- Reddy, P. M. & Murthy, M. S. (2021) The checklist of Indian Spilomelinae (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea, Crambidae). Journal of entomological Research, 45 (4), 769-801. https://doi.org/10.5958/0974-4576.2021.00124.9
- Shaffer, M., Nielsen, E. S. & Horak, M. (1996) Pyralidae. In: Nielsen, E. S., Edwards E. D. and Rangsi, T. V. (eds) Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. CSIRO Division of Entomology, Canberra, pp. 164-199.
- Whitaker, T., Sutton, S. & Barlow, H. (2017) Pyralids of Borneo, An Illustrated Guide, Available from: http://www.pyralidsofborneo.org [Accessed December 27, 2023]