''Basalia nilgiroides'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...

first described by Michael Fibiger in 2008. It is known from the Nilgiri Hills of south-central India. Adults have been recorded in April. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...

is about 13 mm. The forewing is long, pointed and brownish and grey. The crosslines are broad and black by the costa. The terminal line is marked by black interveinal dots. The hindwing is light greyish and the fringes are whitish. The underside is beige and hindwing whitish, with an indistinct discal spot.

References

* Micronoctuini Moths described in 2008 {{Micronoctuini-stub