Olive Biswas

Description of one new species of genus Ramila Moore, 1867 (Lepidoptera, Crambidae, Schoenobiinae) from Indian Sunderbans with a revised key to the Indian species

Abstract One new species of genus Ramila (named Ramila sunderbanensis sp. nov.) is described and illustrated from two male specimens collected from the mangroves of Sunderban Biosphere Reserve, India. The new species is characterised by oval-shaped saccus, gnathos smaller (2/3rd) than uncus of the male genitalia and forewing without any discocellular lunule. http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C72A38EB-475D-4DCD-A16D-EDDC930FB4D6

Insect Faunal Diversity of the Sunderban Biosphere Reserve, West Bengal, India

Present paper confirms the report of 591 species, under 404 genera of 100 families belonging to 13 orders of insects from the Indian parts of Sunderbans. In terms of species richness, the order Lepidoptera is the most speciose (163 species), followed by Diptera (133 species), Hyemnoptera (96 species), Coleoptera (81 species), Orthoptera (19 species), Dermaptera (8 species), Isoptera (7 species), Neuroptera (6 species), Thysanoptera (2species), Blattodea (2species) and Phthiraptera (2 species).