Wednesday, October 29, 2025

[Entomology • 2024] Maikona mayodiana • Discovery of the Genus Maikona Matsumura, 1928 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Agaristinae) from India with the Description of A New Species


Maikona mayodiana
 
Abstract
The genus Maikona Matsumura, 1928 is reported for the first time from India with the description of a new species, Maikona mayodiana n. sp., from the Mayodia pass, Arunachal Pradesh, India. The diagnoses of the new species with similar congeners along with illustrations of its habitus, and genitalia are provided. A distributional map of the members of the genus is also provided.

Lepidoptera, Arunachal Pradesh, East Asia, new record, northeast India, taxonomy



Maikona mayodiana n. sp.

 
Jatishwor Singh IRUNGBAM and Zdenek Faltynek FRIC. 2024. Discovery of the Genus Maikona Matsumura, 1928 (Noctuidae: Agaristinae) from India with the Description of A New Species. Zootaxa. 5481(5); 582-590. DOI: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5481.5.7 [2024-07-19]