Mimeusemia Ceylonica

After being last seen 127 years ago at Trincomalee in Sri Lanka in 1893, researchers from Tamil Nadu have discovered a rare moth species for the first time in India in the buffer zone of Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR).

About

A species of moth known as Mimeusemia Ceylonica is a member of the Noctuidae family and subfamily Agaristinae.
Entomologist George Hampson of England originally depicted and characterised it in 1893.
The discovery of the moth species in the area has strengthened the case for the region's abundant biodiversity.

Moths

All members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies are grouped as moths.
There are an estimated 160,000 different species of moth, many of which have not yet been identified.
There are nocturnal, crepuscular, and diurnal moth species in addition to the majority of nocturnal species.

The rest of the Lepidoptera, which includes the moths, do not form a monophyletic group like the butterflies do.

Source: The Hindu

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