During the fieldwork in 2016 for my PhD studies on the composition of moths at different altitudes of Shirui Hills, Manipur, collected many species of moths belongs to different families. One of the family was Notodontidae.

Notodontidae is a family of moths with approximately 3,800 known species. Moths of this family are found in all parts of the world, but they are most concentrated in tropical areas. The members of this family tend to have heavy-bodied and long-winged, the wings held folded across the back of the body at rest. They rarely display any bright colours, usually being mainly grey or brown. These features mean they rather resemble Noctuidae although the families are not closely related. The adults do not feed. Many species have a tuft of hair on the trailing edge of the forewing which protrudes upwards at rest. This gives them their scientific name "back tooth" and the common name of prominents. The common names of some other species reflect their hairiness, such as puss moth and the group commonly known as kittens (Furcula spp.), so named as they resemble small versions of the puss moth (Wikipedia).

Among, 12 species of Notodontidae, I came across a species from the genus Euhampsonia, which was quite different from other Euhampsonia species found in India and other parts of the world. I tried to find out the exact identity of the species by referring to many publications, literature and books including Notodontidae of Palaearctic region but I could not found a match. Later I decided to study the genitalia and compare with other Euhampsonia sp. There also I could not found any success. Later, I send the photograph of the adult along with its genitalia photo to Dr. Alexander Schintlmeister who is an expert on the Notodontidae fauna of the world.

After a few days back I got a reply from him, saying that the photograph belongs to an undescribed species of Genus Euhampsonia. He also has few materials from the neighbouring country Myanmar and he suggested me to describe it together.

Now the species is described as Euhampsonia rubricata (Schintlmeister & Irungbam, 2018), a new member of Genus Euhampsonia and is accepted for publication at ZOOTAXA.
The genus Euhampsonia includes the following taxa:

Euhampsonia Dyar, 1897
Type species: Trabala niveiceps Walker, 1865 by original designation.
albocristata Kishida, & Wang, 2003
cristata (Butler, 1877)

niveiceps (Walker, 1865)
roepkei Holloway, 1983: 32; pl. 2: 9; fig. 31.
rubricata spec. nov.
serratifera serratifera Sugi, 1994
serratifera viridiflavescens Schintlmeister, 2008
sinjaevi Schintlmeister, 1997
splendida (Oberthür, 1880)
Photo of Euhampsonia rubricata (Schintlmeister & Irungbam, 2018): https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/18005712

Jatishwor Singh Irungbam